Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Great Britain off the gold standard, the U. S. and France are the world's bankers. Economically, therefore, Premier Pierre Laval and President Herbert Clark Hoover are the world's two key men. Last week they made plans to meet in Washington the latter part of this month. To the international Press went most of the credit for the Laval-Hoover meeting. Fortnight ago in Paris, on the eve of Premier Laval's departure for Berlin (see p. 19), it was reported that M. Laval "was considering an American trip." Apparently this report was purest fiction...
...college appointment. At the first of these festivities last night one member of the house wanted to leave early. He arose after the salad course. At the door he was asked whether he had a college appointment or a "date" with a lady. He had the latter. So he was sent back to his seat...
...world have spent long hours, fortunes, and man-power in seeking speed achievements, unheard-of magnitudes in buildings, extraordinary height attainments, and a multitude of limits including marathon dance and pole-sitting records. Naturally the records lately signalized by the British are not in the category of the latter. But there may be a connection between the attitude and practices of the English of contemporary times and their unenviable and unfortunate governmental and economic crisis. Perhaps the robust and thoughtless attitude which the United States has spread abroad with its produce and tourists has had an appreciable part in causing...
Died. Marvin Hart, 55, heavyweight boxing champion of the world in 1905; at Ferncreek, Ky. The title was conferred upon him by James J. Jeffries after the latter had retired and Hart had knocked out Jack Root of Chicago. After eight months Hart lost to Tommy Burns in a 20-round fight at Los Angeles. Out of his championship he realized only $10,000, lived to complain: "I was born 20 years too soon...
...adverse but there was one shining exception. National Cash Register Co. ordered a payment of 37½? on its A stock. This stock is entitled to $3 a year in cumulative dividends, then participates with the B stock (largely held by President Frederick Beck Patterson) after the latter receives $3. During 1929 and 1930, A holders received $4 a share but last March the dividend was passed...