Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schneider-Creusot works, biggest French armorers, and commonly called by irate Red & Pink orators such names as "The Blood-Sucking Armament Octopus." There was no reason to suppose that Ramsay Delano MacBlum was not perfectly sincere in issuing this decree, but it does not go into effect on any particular date. Eventual action is made to turn on the advice of the French General Staff, which is about as keen to turn Schneider-Creusot over to political Reds & Pinks as to turn it over to Adolf Hitler...
...mice were his particular solace when he was president of the University of Michigan. After their initial enthusiasm for the youngest university president of his time, the regents of the University heckled him for his liberal views on education and student behavior, and for his refusal to let Michigan politicians dispose of University money. Disappointed, he resigned after four years. Almost immediately he divorced his wife, daughter of a Boston architect, on grounds of cruelty and technical desertion. He gave her and their two sons and daughter every dollar he owned (about...
...share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share. And this time the Securities & Exchange Commission undertook a study of Tack's odd behavior, with particular reference to the big brokerage house of W. E. Hutton & Co. which it suspects of manipulating the stock through the purchases and sales its clients were advised to make...
...elsewhere. "Some text book should be used," he said, "and my students agree with me apparently, because although we sell a hundred or more copies a year here to our students, thus far there has never been a second hand copy procurable. In other words, the students keep this particular book...
...correlation with the feature article of the forthcoming April issue, the program will include a talk by Seymour E. Harris, associate professor of Economics, who will weigh the forces affecting business and market conditions. Particular emphasis will be put on ways and means of preventing a recurrence of the recent depression in the wake of the incipient boom...