Word: rates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minute. Meanwhile French frontier guards were said to be admitting Saar Jews and other Saarlanders who fear Nazidom at a rate of one every 30 seconds. Most refugees told tales of terrorism which could not be checked. As soon as the plebiscite result was known, Saar Nazis rushed to non-Nazi Saar newsorgans, hung crépe upon the doors. Even the staffs of 100% Catholic papers fled pellmell. Most Saar police at once went Nazi, strove to keep their jobs by peaching on fellow policemen whom they claimed were non-Nazi. Of 120 police under suspicion about 30 were...
Harvard's careful young Chemist-President James Bryant Conant was last week making his second annual report. He proposed to establish an oasis against a possible return of the Dark Ages by making Harvard's laggard, half-undergraduate School of Engineering into a first-rate graduate school...
...teacher. Until then his way had been consistently hard. His father, a baker, disowned him because he refused to be a lawyer. An uncle helped him to get into a musical conservatory. But Mascagni rebelled against the rules, struck out for himself. He toured as conductor of a fourth-rate opera company until he married the stern domineering woman who even now jealously supervises the selection of his casts...
...chemicals for pure banking in 1832 after the bank was well on the road to one of the most amazing dividend records in U. S. history. First dividend was declared in 1827. Since then it has not only never missed a dividend but if has never changed the regular rate except...
...current rate of exchange: 10,000 dinars...