Word: mays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...order for battle planes of the Vought Corsair type used by the U. S. Navy, built at Long Island City. Soon these planes might be bombing Soviet villages near the Sino-Russian frontier. Naturally the U. S. State Department was not responsible for the shipment, but it may have prejudiced Comrade Litvinov as he ruffled his copy of Statesman Stimson's note, pondered its powerful conclusion...
...When the fox goes to ground, "do not ride up to the earth and try to look into it. There is nothing to see, only a hole. If you insist on making yourself useful, ask the huntsman if you may hold his horse...
...down must be absolutely unbalanced." So last week said John Daniel Hertz, retired Yellow Cabman. He had been offered the million by W. T. Waggoner, Texas oil & cattleman, for Reigh Count, derby winner (1928). He had turned down the offer. Reigh Count is now ready for stud although he may be raced one more season...
...office so that nobody could keep tabs on him? In Chicago the athletic committee of the Western Conference questioned two professors this way and that. After a while they closed the door and talked over Iowa's petition that the committee rescind its motion, adopted last May, barring Iowa from Big Ten athletics after Jan. 1. They decided that, since Iowa had not removed the players originally objected to, Iowa could stay...
Obviously if sound movie producers use a song published by somebody else, they get no royalties, may have to pay some. Example: Warner Bros, purchased "Sonny Boy," published and written by De Sylva, Brown & Henderson, with lyric changes by Al Jolson. Estimated royalties were upward of $750,000, of which Warner Bros, received not a cent. Warner Bros, learned a lesson, purchased Witmarks Inc. for approximately $5,000,000.* Radio Corp. seemed last week to have learned that lesson too. A contracted composer for Leo Feist, Inc. is Mabel Wayne, composer of "Ramona," and considered the best Feist music writer...