Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year, which will comprise the University squad. They will oppose each other before each contest to determine the best team for that particular debate. Any person not placed on one of the three teams will be advised to take further speaking training, and will be given an opportunity to move up be a series of challenge debated with other members of the teams. In this way it is hoped to set up a competitive machine which will force the Council teams to a higher standard than they have hitherto maintained...
Second problem was getting a jury. With 81 defendants, the trial seemed likely to last two months or more. Veniremen viewed the case with alarm. On the first day of the trial there were so many veniremen and so many accused that the prisoners had to move out into the corridors. The Government summoned 106 veniremen before a jury could be selected...
...David A. Schulte is behind Vivaudou, Inc. Nothing that David A. Schulte touches ever freezes. The entire business history of David Schulte has been centered on making capital work faster by setting loose forces that make merchandise move faster." So read an advertisement in the July, 1928, Drug Topics. Signing the statement was Vivaudou President Thomas J. McHugh...
...school children will have school hours reduced from six to three per day by listening to a talkie "educator" instead of to a teacher. Mr. Fox also planned to take talkies of famed surgeons at work and to distribute to churches pictures of religious leaders. The latter move Cineman Fox explained "on the theory that every man, woman and child will be a finer citizen if a God-fearing...
...difference between the McCormick and Wilson plans is that Heiress McCormick borrowed at 6% against stocks that might rise and offset interest charges, while Heiress Wilson borrowed at 6% against collateral that probably yields no more than 5%. The reason generally suspected to be in back of the Wilson move is that her collateral probably consists mostly of bonds that have no ready market. As the certificates are outstanding until 1932 and the collateral does not have to remain fixed, Heiress Wilson can therefore gradually sell her municipals as a market for them appears; meanwhile...