Word: obtaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Government, announcing that it had "decisively overcome" Russia's shortage of consumer goods, abolished restriction cards (TIME, Oct. 7), threw open Moscow stores said to be bulging with more than the public could buy and dispatched throughout the world Soviet newsreels of beaming buyers rushing in to obtain meat, butter, caviar, cloth, quilts, rubbers, etc. One scoundrelly speculator was caught last week selling for 40 rubles a pair of gloves she had stood in line to buy from the State for 15 rubles, the purchaser preferring not to spend the day in a queue...
...with kidnappers, gangsters and racketeers. That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of its agencies of Government to save innocent victims from wildcat banking, from watered stocks and from all other kinds of 'confidence games.' That is Justice. The nation applauds the efforts of Government to obtain and to maintain fair reward for labor, whether it be the labor of the farmer or the factory worker or the labor of the white collar man. That is Justice. The nation applauds efforts, through, the agencies of Government, to give a greater social security to the aged...
...Clifford was the "Gibson Girl," Evelyn Chandler, a statuesque stage beauty some six feet tall. His wife is the daughter of London's frequently arrested night club queen, Mrs. Kate Meyrick. Lord de Clifford's chief previous legal difficulty was for "giving false information" in order to obtain his marriage license. This peccadillo carried a possible penalty of seven years in jail. London's Lord Mayor took a romantic view of the case in his capacity of magistrate, not only let Lord de Clifford off with a fine of $250 but gave him a fortnight...
Born in 1896 Professor Bush graduated from Toronto University in 1920 with an A. B. In the Classics. He stayed there to obtain an A. M. in English in 1921. The next year he came to Harvard where he was given a Ph.D. in 1923, for which he wrote a thesis entitled "Classical Themes in English Non-Dramatic Literature of the Sixteenth Century". Within the year Professor Bush will publish a volume continuing this subject down to contemporary poetry...
...addition to its RFC debt New York Central owes its bankers $65,000,000, payable on demand. New York Central notes held by Mr. Jones's RFC are due on fixed dates, hence are technically inferior to the bank loans. Mr. Jones wanted equality. One way to obtain it, suggested Mr. Jones, was to fund the road's short-term bank and Government debt with a big bond issue, the RFC subscribing one half, the bankers the other half...