Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who saw in the recent settlement of the Hungarian-Jugo-Slavian affair the beginning of a new era in international politics should be interested by an item in yesterday's newspapers dealing with the equally fascinating, although less important, quarrel between Italy and Abyssinia. These reports announced that, in a statement apparently signed by Premier Mussolini himself, the Italian government had refused arbitration, maintaining that the case was one of pure aggression on the part of the Ethiopians. This statement has a certain whimsical humor, suggesting an image of the Roman eagle fighting for its life against the black...
...more without hurting the bank's business. The annual payroll had been cut another $200,000 to $4,600,000, and the staff of 2,141 employes was at rock bottom. Seven branches had been closed, leaving 66. Including large profit from Government bond trading, probably a non-recurring item, earnings for 1934 would be about $4,900,000, down slightly from the year before. So, with no end to the Government's easy money policy in sight, Banker Baker recommended a cut in the dividend from...
From Novosibirsk last week came the usual bloody item of Soviet grain news, an item so commonplace as to excite no Russian remark. Because the collective farm "Red Front" raised only 40% of its State-scheduled grain quota, the Western Siberian Circuit Court sentenced four of the collective's officials to be shot...
...spirit of levity, A. M. Hain of the Edinburgh Institute of Animal Genetics published the following item in the issue of Nature which reached the U. S. last week...
Gold Eagle Guy (by Melvin Levy; Group Theatre, producer). Taking a certain sombre satisfaction in having produced Pulitzer Prize-winning Men in White last season, the very earnest Group Theatre has brought forth another item in its series of interpretations of U. S. life. Gold Eagle Guy is not so much a play as a theatrical character study of the rise & fall of a San Francisco shipping tycoon from...