Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...extent the brains of the Chinese Army. Two months ago Germany obliged her Far Eastern ally by recalling the commission. When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek showed strong reluctance to release the Germans from their contracts, Germany recalled Ambassador Oskar Trautmann from Hankow, hinted he might not be allowed to return...
When Cartoonist Ham Fisher decided that Joe had got over his grief and should return to the U. S. to defend the heavy weight title, he found no way to get Joe out of his five-year enlistment without staining his spotless character. Presidential intervention was the only hope. So Cartoonist Fisher wrote to Presidential Press Secretary Stephen Tyree Early, got permission to have President Roosevelt solve the dilemma. The President ap peared in the strip on two successive days, first reviving Knobby Walsh, Palooka's manager, after telling him that Joe had deserted and was to be shot...
...wagered on the race, $130,000 was on Lawrin. The return was $2.20 for $2, the legal minimum of 10? on the dollar...
...such spare parts an operatic director can assemble operas almost as rapidly as mechanics assemble automobiles. And the spare parts being more or less standard the world over, he can Jend particularly fine spare parts, famous Siegfrieds, Rigolettos or Toscas, to other opera houses, and borrow theirs in return...
Vast United Corp. owns an agglomeration of investments in power properties scattered all over the East. Formed by the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel interests in 1929, it marked the return of J. P. Morgan & Co. from pure banking to promotional activities. Because United Corp. does not attempt to influence the operating policies of its affiliated power companies, it is a favorite of utility operating men. But this makes no difference to SEC. For, though power companies require heavy capitalizations that make financiers their logical bosses, SEC believes that systems of operating companies pyramided to a peak in Wall Street offer...