Word: procession
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...
Justice Roberts not only voted against it but wrote the majority opinion. He ruled that the act would have taken property from the railroads without due process of law because it arbitrarily pooled the pension liabilities of different roads. More important, he ruled that pensioning railway employes had nothing to do with regulating interstate commerce. Said he: "It is an attempt for social ends to impose by sheer fiat non-contractual incidents upon the relation of employer and employe, not as a rule or regulation of commerce and transportation between the states but as a means of assuring a particular...
...that, in return for making a full and complete disclosure of his secret, an inventor is entitled to the exclusive right to make, use and sell it for 17 years. To be patentable, inventions must fall within one of six different classes of subject matter: 1) an art or process, 2) a machine, 3) an article of manufacture, 4) a composition of matter, 5) a plant asexually reproduced other than a tuber-propagated plant, 6) a new and ornamental design. It takes at least three months to get a patent examined; on the average, two years to get one granted...
Distillers. Of all U. S. industries one of the most undercapitalized is the liquor business. It needs funds to carry inventories through the aging process. Last summer President Seton Porter of National Distillers Products Corp. proposed to raise money by selling 337,000 shares of new common stock to the public and an equivalent amount to Distillers Co. Ltd., Britain's fabulous whiskey trust (TIME, Aug. 30). The scheme was abandoned when DCL refused to pay $25 a share. Last week National Distillers announced its latest bid for fresh capital by filing registration with the Securities & Exchange Commission...
...been, but still highly amusing. His lines show a little heavy-handed brushing over, but his voice and ingratiating manner are unchanged and score their points with usual effect. The rest of the matter is connected with the mating of Bing Crosby and Joan Bennet--a long and difficult process featured by several good ballads and much insipidity--both registered by Mr. Crosby--and the customary blond Bennet beauty...