Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half anti-Andrews. Named as president was Vern R. Drum, oldtime Chrysler man who has lately been Hupp's production manager. Meantime in Washington in hearings on the New York Stock Exchange's request for permission to de-list Hupp stock, the Securities & Exchange Commission continued to quiz Promoter Andrews on his involved Hupp contracts, one of which SECounsel John L. Flynn acidly termed an agreement between "you, you and you in triplicate...
Last fortnight, after Lucille had gone to bed, Mrs. Walgreen showed her husband a mimeographed quiz for an English course which Lucille had brought home. Lucille was to take one of a list of quotations, discuss it as "a starting point from which to frame a new social policy for the problems which we now confront." Mr. Walgreen's eyes ran down the list, stopped in horror and amazement at a quotation from Russia's Primer by M. Ilin...
Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
...wedding to get sequined with his children, whom he has not seen for some twelve years. Of children there are four, in various stages of adolescence, tanking from a Princeton freshman down to a stripling of thirteen a whom pirates are still compositions. When his oldest daughter being to quiz him on the sex life of the ear be has brought as a gift, the father begins to suspect something amiss. When he finds his oldest son engaged in an affair with a mercenary Portuguese wench, and his two youngest offspring engaging in heated discussion of Freudian neuroses...
...Department of Justice could not keep track of the vast jungle of executive laws burgeoning in Washington, how could John Businessman be expected to? The Court proceeded to quiz Assistant Attorney General Harold M. Stephens as follows...