Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news item telegraphed all over this country on Associated Press wires, public opinion has been led to believe that all the Germans living in the United States have to register at the Consulates and to return at once to Germany." The consul maintained that this is not the case...
...amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...
...last week just in time to hear another piece of news sweet to the ears. After more than two years of hearings in various cities of the land, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber to cease and desist from granting special favors to Sears, Roebuck & Co. in return for the privilege of making the tires that Sears sells under its own brand names. This mail-order business has often accounted for 10% of Goodyear's total sales...
...profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never stop. . . . Fight...
...love with her, but she kept him at a platonic distance. Ben stood it as long as he could, then went abroad for a year's tour with his sister's fiance, Meredith, to get atmosphere for a really good novel. On the eve of their return Meredith died. Ben had one more catastrophe to lay to his conscience...