Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...traveling salesman stopping at a small-town hotel approached the cashier one morning. "I'm carrying more money than I like to," he said importantly. "Will you take care of this $100 bill for me?" The cashier put it in the safe, gave a receipt...
...loss which it has sustained in his death. For the moment it will not seem absurd to praise him as a great moral leader. The customary resolutions will be passed, sermons will be preached, and inevitably a memorial of inappropriate design will be suggested and approved. It is safe to say that only two things will be kept hidden: the qualities in the man which made him so peculiar to his day and place, and the fact that the mood which he represented and already dissolved before his death. Yet it is no disparagement, but rather a platitude...
...Munthe sent $18,000 to King Gustaf "as a first instalment," asked that the money be spent to keep Swedish Lapland safe for Swedish Lapps. "Above all, Your Majesty," wrote Donor Munthe, "do not force upon Laplanders the evil eye of obtrusive tourists or the doubtful blessings of civilization...
Telefonica Safe. The heavy, heavy threat that International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.'s big Spanish subsidiary might lose its franchise was lifted last week. When Left-wing deputies demanded that the bill abrogating the contract be brought up for debate, Premier Azana requested that the Cortes refrain from discussion, declaring: "The Government takes full responsibility for the negotiations [with Compania Telefonica National de Espana for a new contract] . . . will stand or fall on the question." The Cortes voted 181 to 11 to let the Government stand, but not until after two excited deputies had started to pummel each other...
...above that $1 per thousand. Worst district is No. 4, comprising Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Missouri Valley States. For holdup insurance in this district a small-town banker will pay ten times as much as he would in the safe & sane East-$20 per thousand up to $10,000, $10 per thousand beyond that...