Word: put
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that existing patent laws foster monopoly. Intervening in a Supreme Court patent-violation suit against General Talking Pictures Corp. by American Telephone & Telegraph Co., the Department of Justice contended that "public policy cannot tolerate the extension of the patent privilege to control the use to which the consumer may put the article after it has been marketed. It is unnecessary to any legitimate exploitation of the patent, and is a vicious practice which the common judgment of the people will condemn and which the Government must outlaw...
Last summer, as talk of rewriting Section 77 grew, ICC put on the pressure. Western Pacific was the fourth Class I railroad shoved through the wringer in four months.* Giving a clear indication of its temper, ICC last week declared: "If . . . reorganization is to be successful, the capital structure of the reorganized company must be realistically related to its actual earning power...
Last week Conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra put on an all-Rachmaninoff program, with 65-year-old Rachmaninoff himself as soloist. Besides his First Piano Concerto and Third Symphony were played three of his Preludes, newly tricked out in orchestral dress by Orchestrator Lucien Cailliet...
Publisher Vann gave as his reason for thus switching allegiance the fact that his good friend and patron, Senator Guffey, had been demoted to No. 2 Democrat in Pennsylvania when David L. Lawrence was put in ahead of him as State Chairman. Beating the Jones-Earle ticket would restore Senator Guffey as Pennsylvania's No. 1 Democrat and patronage dispenser. At this announcement, Senator Guffey declared himself shocked and grieved. He said Publisher Vann's reasoning was "deceitful and dishonest." He professed his utter loyalty to the Jones-Earle ticket. He protested that it was "not through Guffey...
...from a tour of the Balkans on which he notably overbid the British and French in extending credits-i.e., economic bribes for political favors. And the day after he got back, Poland thankfully accepted a German credit of 60,000,000 marks and, according to reports, Greece was put down by the German Economics Ministry for a credit of 100,000,000 marks...