Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left in a tantrum when his discharge card did not give him as high a rating as he thought he deserved. Later he went abroad again, acquired a French aviation pilot's license, returned to train at Roosevelt Field. In 1933 Rob ert Gordon Switz married a quiet intelligent Vassar girl named Marjorie Tilley. Soon they went abroad again. Aviator Switz representing a U. S. aviation instrument company. Said J. N. A. Van Ven Bonwhuizsen, president of the MacNeil Instrument Co. : "Mr. Switz was our representative in Europe, but he never made any sales." In Europe the Switzes traveled...
...still the head of a Royal House, responsible for the miniature court at Doom, the princelings and the horde of poor relations. The solution, old Wilhelm concluded, was to move to Germany to collect the rents and later, perhaps, the crown and country. The walls of the quiet room were crowded with mementoes of the great days before 1918. Potsdam was only 16 years and 350 mi. away. Listening to their father's proud boasts, the sons felt 16 years younger but they looked doubtful. Last week Belgium's Chamber of Deputies raised King Leopold's civil...
...father's fortune, estimated at the time of his death (1931) to be $100,000.000. John Schiffs grandfather, old Jacob Henry, left an estate in 1920 of $34,000.000 which was divided between John's father Mortimer and his aunt. Mrs. Warburg. Young John Schiff is quiet, affable, able. After he graduated from Yale in 1925 he went to Oxford for a year, later serving apprenticeships with Bankers Trust Co. and Missouri Pacific R. R. Dignified and conscientious...
...Yard police have long had as one of their sacred duties the job of preserving the peace and security of the Harvard Yard and its inmates, whose safety and quiet are guaranteed by the daily ritual of the closing of the gates at sundown. Every evening at six o'clock sharp the clang of the iron protals on Massachusetts Avenue cuts off Virtually all approach to the buildings from that flank except from the vicinity of Boylston Hall...
...figure for the same period of 1933. Steel scrap prices, which generally forecast the trend of steel activity, rose to a 3½-year high at $14.50 per ton. Brightest spot was the Detroit area where mills were running at 100% capacity. Retail sales boomed again after the quiet interlude brought by storms and bitter weather. New England merchants reported a gain of 8.9% for February but the average gain for the U. S. was estimated to be 20% to 25%. Springfield (Mass.) reported a jump of 62%. ]. J. C. Penney's chain stores reported sales for the first...