Word: returned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slight cold." They warmly said that for a man of his years he had done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves to maintain on this American Continent. May the spirit and the example which...
...kidnapping of all time as smoothly as Britain disposed of the one and only voluntary abdication in her history (see p. 13). Sleek, polished, cosmopolitan Kidnapper Chang declared: "I am by nature rustic, surly and unpolished, an impudent lawbreaker who committed a great crime. ... I was completely unworthy to return with you, Chiang Kaishek, to Nanking, so I have followed you. ... I shall never decline what is beneficial to our country even if it means my death...
Early last spring, he received a mysterious letter from a stranger who demanded $2,500 and seven old shirts in return for his "unbeatable" system of betting on the races, threatened Turfman Vanderbilt with bad luck unless he complied by May 30. Turfman Vanderbilt ignored the letter. On May 30, Cherry Orchard fell at the start, breaking his jockey's collarbone. Airilame was defeated for the first time, and all three Vanderbilt entries in a third race inexplicably failed to live up to expectations. At Saratoga, an epidemic of coughing ruined the chances of the promising Vanderbilt string...
...politics. Anna Barabas works for a dressmaker, loses her job when French and Hungarian political relations grow tense. Her scheming sweetheart is arrested in a swindle, jailed, deported to Hungary, where he becomes a movie director. Anna and her father make a desperate expedition to South America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind as she is in nationality, rejects her German lover, while Jani is turned down...
...argued in vain that "the fact that a corporation does not make a profit does not mean that it cannot be damaged," and pointed out ineffectually that A. P.'s members "are its customers, and there would be no point in collecting profits from them in order to return the profits as dividends." The Court's action left still unsettled by the highest court in the country, how long broadcasting stations must wait before they can legitimately appropriate "news'" published by newspapers...