Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a perfect right to choose any candidate you wish. I do not seek to impair that right-but because Georgia has been good enough to call me her adopted son . . . I feel no hesitation in telling you what I would do if I could vote here next month...
...airing of home games forced the ball club last month to lift its ban and allow to its sponsors the games KQV was pirating. In Federal district court, KQV, still brash, explained that it had rented space in a building overlooking the ball park, argued that it had a perfect right to broadcast what it saw from its own property. Promptly the Pirates raised a canvas screen to shut off KQV's knothole. To plug the knothole tight, last week Judge F. P. Schoonmaker ruled that the club has a property right in broadcasts of its games, issued...
...affable, red-faced Scotsman, Lee E. Echols, inspector at the New York Customs Bureau. Last week he let smugglers know how dangerous life can be by shooting 299 out of a possible 300 to defend his individual championship. He also shot a 296 and two perfect 300s, led his five-man Bureau of Customs team to win the Morgenthau Trophy for the third year. Most of the shooting was done with .38-calibre revolvers with 4-in. barrels, slow and quick fire at 15 and 25 yards. In the round permitting .45-calibre guns with barrels...
...born G . . . . . . . and has relations in America, I think to be on the right address. I am 18 years of age, was born in Vienna and am of a very good family. By profession I am bodicemacer and am thoroughly versed in all commercial branches. I am perfect in German, English, French, Spanish and speak some Italien...
Other factors also made U. P. & L. the perfect SEC choice. Promoter Harley Clarke threw together this "scatteration" of properties in 588 communities in 24 States and Canada in the 1920s, then floated three stock issues and two bond issues. By 1935, when U. P. & L. debentures sold as low as 20¼? on the dollar, Floyd Odium's big investment trust. Atlas Corp., bought up enough of them to gain control in a complex deal with RFC. which had its hands on Harley Clarke's key holding company (TIME, July 22, 1935). Harley Clarke was soon shoved...