Word: ran
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institutions, Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir vetoed the project. Final setback came last March. According to the British North America Act (Canada's Constitution), the Dominion holds control over currency, banking, interprovincial commerce. Canada's Supreme Court pondered Alberta's Social Credit laws, decided unanimously that they ran afoul the Dominion's monetary system...
...About six years ago, Mme Becker's husband died-she said of cancer-leaving a thriving lumberyard. She quickly ran the business into the ground, looked around for a new husband to support her. One M. Costadot. who was unfortunately a married man, struck her fancy. One evening, as they chatted pleasantly about a film they had just seen. Widow Becker brewed tea for Mme Costadot. She died...
...Edgar Howard Borck, captain of the Manhattan College team, ran the mile in 4 min., 13.9 sec., breaking by a half-second the classic record set by Cornell's John Paul Jones...
Died. Captain George W. Yardley, 58, master of the Dollar liner President Hoover; of complications from exposure and nervous strain in the six grim days of rescue and salvage after the President Hoover ran hard aground 18 miles off Formosa last December; in San Francisco...
...names of the late Paul and Felix Warburg bulked in U. S. finance, few knew that two other Warburg brothers played big roles in finance, that Max and Fritz Warburg, along with Max's son Erich, ran M. M. Warburg & Co. of Hamburg, Germany. For five years this rich banking firm, founded in 1797, and having an affiliate in Amsterdam, escaped Nazi persecution of Jews. Last week the ax finally fell: M. M. Warburg & Co. was, converted into a limited company under the same name. Officers will be representatives of Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft and other big German banks...