Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this interesting work for the sake of marks which may mean little. There is everything to be said for a plan which will make it possible for those students in need of scholarships to be judged on the basis of their zeal as well as their ability to obtain high marks...
...perhaps, a melancholy consideration that the progressive organization which attempted a War Protest meeting on Widener steps yesterday morning has not yet learned that methods which obtain in Union Square fail sadly here. A Washington Square harangue will always be met with a certain derision in the Yard; bad grammar will ever meet tutorial reprimand: "I'm sure the Prince of Wales said 'doesn...
...pleasant talent of Edward Everett Borton and Edna May Oliver make the other mediocre movie. "The Poor Rich" adequate entertainment for the tired undergraduate. In the role of penniless aristocratic cousins with an impressive genealogical background, they make a last desperate attempt to obtain a rich bride for the here. After several complications. Albert finds that he can marry where true love guides him. Grant Mitchell, who has never equaled in the films the success he scored in the play. "Little Accident," gave a satisfactory interpretation of the deputy sheriff. Neither Leila Hyama nor Thelma Todd were allowed...
...miles to the north on Parliament Hill, Ottawa, last week, approximately the same set of facts was revealed without any Dominion-shaking uproar. Edward Wentworth Beatty, blunt, ready-tongued head of Canadian Pacific Ry., had testified before the House of Commons Banking & Currency Committee that in order to obtain $60,000,000 in bank loans, he had been forced to ask the Prime Minister for a Government guarantee of principal & interest. Bond issues and old bank loans were coming due and the New York and London capital markets were closed to orthodox financing. Canada has no RFC because Canada...
...President of the U. S. and whose great-great-grandson was to become 32nd President of the U. S. The directors picked for their first president, General Alexander Macdougall, a brisk, decisive Scotch merchant who earlier in his life had piled up a small fortune privateering. Without waiting to obtain a charter (which was not granted until seven years later), the bank soon opened for business, having duly "qualified before his Worship, the Mayor...