Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Melvin did not return to work after lunch yesterday and could not be reached for comment...
...Swap El Salvador, a knot on the geological cord joining North and South America, is a one-crop country-coffee forming about 95% of her exports. Since 1935, with the coffee market glutted, she has disposed of her crop largely by barter with Germany, getting textiles, hardware in return. Last week the 13,173-sq. mi. nation, the size of New Jersey and Connecticut, decided she needed airplanes for training purposes, for ferrying army freight over her mountains and for remote control over rebel bands in the interior. There appeared to be no better way to get them than...
Ernest Angell, for two years administrator of the Securities & Exchange Commission's New York office, last week resigned to return to private practice. In so doing, he was following a well-established precedent which has given SEC about the highest rate of personnel turnover in the Government. Reasons for this are twofold: 1) though SEC is full of career men, only a few top-of-the-heap jobs pay an adequate salary; 2) SEC is also full of bright young lawyers who are glad to starve for a year or two in order to get an insight into...
...Whitney offices to verify the figures. What made the Exchange so alert it would not reveal last week, but there was good reason to suppose that some of the Governors already suspected Whitney irregularities.* In November Governor Edward Henry Harriman Simmons had had difficulty getting Whitney to return certain securities of the Exchange Gratuity Fund...
...Wegner (a onetime Cornell baseball player) arrived four years ago, they have won fame outside Roslyn. But progressive education, though less costly in Roslyn than in some other towns, is more expensive than old-fashioned schooling and a year ago Roslyn taxpayers began to circulate a petition for a return to the three Rs. The petition struck a responsive chord. It soon had 340 signatures, turned out 400 parents one night to beard the Board of Education and argue about the shortcomings of Roslyn's three elementary schools. One by one they denounced Superintendent Wegner's highfalutin...