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Dates: during 1930-1939
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On Sept. 1, 1909, word of Cook's claim reached civilization. Five days later Peary cabled his own claim from Labrador, followed it shortly by a bitter denunciation of Cook: "Do not trouble about Cook's story. . . . He has not been to the Pole. . . . He has simply handed...
> ". . . The store that operates its own millinery department and is dependent for merchandise upon infrequent trips to the market by its own buyer . . . cannot hope to keep up with the style demands of the consumer."
> "Unlike industries requiring a substantial capital investment" (in New York City, which accounts for 56% of millinery production, total equipment is estimated at $1,000,000), "hard times produce an increase in the number of millinery manufacturers. The failure of one concern results in the formation of three or four...
When Leon Blum, onetime Premier of France, was attacked as an "unconscious" German agent by the reactionary Paris Matin, he wrote an answer for his own Socialist daily, Le Populaire, that began: "We don't see how censorship could prohibit us from making a legitimate reply." The rest was...
By this time Curtis preferred stockholders had a thumping $12,339,273 coming to them in preferred dividends, and not even the sharp eyes of President Walter Deane Fuller could see the money in sight. Meanwhile the holders of the common, headed by the Bok family, descendants of the late...