Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes in return for the granting of virtually all demands known to have been made by strikers. Boomed joyous Jouhaux as his fat fingers signed, "not merely a success but the greatest victory for workers which the history of trade unions has ever recorded...
...novel is Luisa Sanfelice, 34-year-old daughter of impoverished nobles, unloved and unloving wife of a dissolute, treacherous aristocrat who has run through two fortunes, abandoned his children, left his wife in a state of dull, stupefied despair. At a ball given for Admiral Nelson on his return from the Battle of the Nile, Luisa meets Fernando Ferri, an ill-favored, impetuous, garrulous lawyer's clerk, secretly a radical who lacks the courage to state his views or the resourcefulness to try to achieve them. Luisa recognizes Fernando's weaknesses, loves him as the one individual...
...Minister to China. The sights and sounds of the legation compound, the stillness of the Orient under snow, the pony the British Minister gave him, the hard-packed clay roads in summer, the incredible remoteness of the place and the kindliness and decorum of the Chinese are memories which return to President Angell with infinitely more clarity than the last meeting of the Yale Corporation...
...reorganization scheme. Banker Roosevelt promptly took him up, proposing to 1) split the road into an owning and an operating company connected by a one-year lease; 2) borrow $5,000,000 from RFC; 3) borrow $1,000,000 from Boston's rich, crotchety Frederick Henry Prince. In return for its money RFC would get first mortgage bonds and Mr. Prince would get a first lien on income for his interest. Furthermore, Mr. Prince would get a bonus of $1,000,000 in 4½% income bonds of the railroad company and the entire capital stock of the operating...
...RETURN TO COOLAMI-Eleanor Dark- Macmillan ($2.50). Author Dark makes conservative use of the stream-of- consciousness technique in a carefully manipulated account of a two-day motor trip in Australia, during which a serious marital tangle is straightened...