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...youngest bank president in the United States at twenty-eight, Kennedy moved from shipping to movies, and was appointed head of the Securities Exchange Commission at its outset four years...
...whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time on the part of three young Cuban revolutionaries, who want him to save their skins by transporting them...
...fair estimate of the Varsity cross country team can be made until the group has been put under the test, and the test comes Friday for those that are prepared. Jaakko every fall at the outset of the cross country season holds a University Cross Country Handicap Meet over the course which starts at the College side of Anderson Bridge, runs along the river to the Watertown bridge and follows up the other side of the river to the Field House...
...Salvador, not much bigger than Maryland, with a population of about 1,500,000, was one of the Central American countries that did not declare war on Germany. As a neutral she was invited by the League to join up at the outset, signed the Covenant in March 1920, but she rapidly proved herself a troublesome member. Soon she began to haggle about the amount of her contribution to the League, later raised objections to the cost of the International Labor Office being included in the League's budget. Why El Salvador worries so much about her League dues...
Incensed and hurt, Sol Bloom cried: "At the outset I may say that this kind of work with me is a labor of love. Ever since I was a little boy I have delved into history. I like to read it, and I like to write it. ... I think that the books gotten out by the [Washington] Bicentennial Commission will live forever as the correct history of this country. . . . When I started on the Constitution to write the history of it, I just could not believe that there was so much misinformation on the Constitution...