Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is a U. S. best-seller,÷ a German publishing firm prepared to bring out All This, and Heaven Too in Germany, asked Author Rachel Lyman Field for permission to put her name on the title page simply as "Lyman Field." Reason: by Nazi decree, Rachel is one of the names officially allotted to German Jewesses. Aryan Author Field refused...
...produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into the old Paste Parisien building with brooms, stray cats and dogs etc., put the wheezy, three-place elevator out of commission, utterly disrupted business...
While the WPAsters still worked on at their regular $94-a-month salary, the Illinois Symphony actually began to pile up a profit at the box office. The size of this profit put it in a different class from most other WPA orchestras, enabled it to pay the high performance royalties asked by such ace contemporary composers as Dmitri Shostakovich, Serge Prokofieff, Paul Hindemith, Jean Sibelius...
...game of all. The bats have small circular heads with long shafts, cost about $8, break at an alarming rate. The balls, worth about 60?, are made of tightly wrapped strips of cloth wound with twine and covered like a baseball, are slightly smaller than a golf ball, have put players' eyes out. With recovering, costing about 10?, balls can be made to last for 100 years. Played like four-wall handball, kin to pelota, pallone and other Basque games, it was probably originated by bored debtors in Fleet Street prison about 1800. Like court tennis, it was soon...
Fortnight ago angry Financier Young demanded that Guaranty reappraise the collateral. It did so, found that one of the three issues was "above water." This put Financier Young partly back in the saddle. Then last week, to Wall Street's surprise, Guaranty put him all the way back by resigning as trustee of the other two issues. Announced reason: "Interests of the holders of the bonds . . . may now conflict with the position of the trustee...