Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German daily papers most death notices still refer to God, but last week a fast-gaining formula was to advertise that the German deceased "died in the faith of Adolf Hitler." The Cologne Court of Appeals upheld last week the decision of the lower court which recently jail-sentenced a Cologne smart aleck who replied to a greeting of "Heil Hitler!" by saying "Heil London!" According to the Court of Appeals, this is a "gross misdemeanor" like spitting on the Cross...
President Williams, whose board chair-man and biggest stockholder is John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, was apparently expressing no more than a pious hope. Only a few days before he released his report the people of Texas in the persons of the committee on revenue & taxation in the lower house of the Texas Legislature voted 11-to-6 to boost the sulphur tax from $1.03 to $2. To the dismay of Freeport and Texas Gulf witnesses and pleaders on the scene, the committee came within one vote of amending the bill to make...
Plans are final now and arrangements are complete for the round trip which costs but $11.00 in an upper berth or $11.75 in a lower. The SPECIAL will pull out of Boston at 8 o'clock Friday night and make a special stop in Cambridge at 8:38 o'clock. Immediately following the game Monday night a train will leave Montreal and pull into the North Station in Boston Tuesday morning around 8 o'clock, which will give everyone a chance to get back for a 9 o'clock class...
...take U. S. speculators for a fast ride. Last week cocoa men were passing around a story that United Africa Co. Ltd., greatest single trader and shipper on the British Gold Coast, was depressing the market so that it could buy its beans from the native tribesmen at lower prices...
...Scattergood ready to scatter the good of cheap power. Then, starting with 5,000 customers, he launched a campaign to buy up the private companies, continually forcing the issue with direct competition. The Power Bureau would merely string a line down a street parallel to the private lines, offer lower rates, wait for the rush of customers. The private companies could not meet the price without lowering rates in the whole territory. In 1922, after furious litigation, Southern California Edison had to capitulate, selling out to the city...