Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tennis fans were startled, however, when Prime Minister Holcombe Ward (president of the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association), Foreign Minister Walter Pate (Davis Cup captain) and the whole Amateur Tennis Cabinet, although left with inadequate defense for the Davis Cup and a potential loss of revenue thereby, publicly wished their golden boy godspeed in going over to the enemy, professional tennis. In fact, Foreign Minister Pate was host at the abdication party, invited Promoter Jack Harris formally to alienate the king in the Pate offices at No. 2 Wall Street...
First elections for municipal councillors "since Munich" were held last week throughout England and Wales. There was no landslide either way but the Conservative Party made a quiet net gain of 20 seats, mainly at the expense of the Labor Party which suffered a net loss of 17 seats. The Liberals lost two seats, Independents...
...home. About six weeks ago Secretary Wallace first promulgated his domestic "two-price plan." It amounts to dumping surpluses at home instead of abroad- buying excess commodities from farmers at market price, then selling them at cut prices to needy U. S. citizens, with the Government footing the loss...
...Brighton, Mass., Joseph V. Harkins took home 15 $100 bills, receipts from his jewelry store. He slipped the money in a telephone book to hide it. Few days later a telephone employe delivered a new telephone book, took away the old. When he discovered his loss, harried Mr. Harkins set to work with his family looking through 100,000 discarded telephone books. Five days later they found the money in the 75,000th...
Characterizing the loss by the Demoerats of several seats in the House and Senate as "a normal political phenomenon," Holcomber hold that any change contemplated in the traditional alignment of the parties before the vote could still be brought about...