Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Regis VI (Clive Brook) voluntarily abdicating the throne of an unnamed European nation because, 1) he is not allowed to marry a beautiful commoner named Madame Xandra St. Aurlon (Helen Vinson), and 2) because a powerful group wants to get its hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then...
Feeling apparently that they serve only as an appendage to the Harvard-Yale rivalry, and rather resenting their position as filling for the legendary Big Three, the "Daily Princetonian" has come forth with a proposal for a so-called Ivy League of seven colleges, presumably to parallel the Big Ten of the Middle West...
...Monday, Wednesday, and Friday afternoons from 2:00 to 3:00 o'clock classes have been scheduled in apparatus work. Instruction on the rings, high and parallel bars and the buck will be offered. An opportunity for work in tumbling is available on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons at the same hour...
...stockholder had a case against his directors, a good court in which to bring suit would be Ferdinand Pecora's in Manhattan. That quick-witted, onetime inquisitor for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee could undoubtedly recall without recourse to the record at least one parallel case from his rich experience in Washington. Last week stockholders who were suing the directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, did receive a decision from bushy-haired New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora. The issue to him was plain...
...President was at pains to avoid implying criticism of the present state of the stockmarket, confining his speculation to possible effects on monetary stability and foreign exchange. Nevertheless, the deadly parallel between 1914 and Europe's present state was inevitably drawn. At the start of the War foreign holdings of U. S. securities were between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000. As foreign markets swiftly closed, the New York Stock Exchange became the only possible place in the world where securities could be turned into cash on a large scale...