Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying them. SEC found that speculators-for-the-rise had lost about...
...Baltimore last week the Aryan Author Herr Oskar Maria Graf worked up the local Deutschamerikanischer Kulturverband by telling its members: "Throughout Germany small groups of citizens opposed to the rule of Adolf Hitler have been formed and are awaiting an opportunity to rise against the Nazi Government." Aroused by this Aryan straight from Europe, the excited Baltimore Kulturverband telegraphed to President Roosevelt a scarcely veiled hint that he might emulate President Wilson, whose XIV Points gave the German masses a rallying ground against Kaiser Wilhelm...
...opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...
...store was closing. Low in spirit but not so taciturn was Chairman William A. Charles. Behind his roller-top desk, looking like a baffled and unhappy small-town grocer, this tall, grey-haired, 70-year-old son of the store's founder talked of Charles & Co.'s rise & fall...
...second novel of a successful contributor to such publications as American Magazine, Remember the End ranks in literary and sentimental values with average competent popular fiction. In an earlier day it would probably have been a romantic version of the rise of Andrew Carnegie or Henry Clay Frick. But some misgiving about her hero's ambitions gives Author Turnbull's story a moral twist which is new to such fiction...