Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed without a record vote the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, after a serious Democratic revolt (see col. 2). ¶Passed without a record vote a bill legalizing and regulating the sale of liquor in the District of Columbia, sent it to the Senate...
...visitors in his parlor take too much alarm Jesse Jones hastened to send word to the stockholders of Chicago's First National who met last week to confirm the sale of $25,000,000 of preferred stock to the RFC (an amount precisely equal to their own holdings). His pledge: the RFC would not interfere in the choice of a chairman for their bank, a job that is also vacant. The First National stock- holders believed him, voted to sell the preferred stock...
...among her guests, discovers that the Boy has signed a contract to write for Hollywood. That everyone knows this except herself sends her into a fit of rage. When the Boy comes demurely in she is auctioning him off to her covetous lady friends: Here's property for sale, A little worn and frail, But definitely male. Full of shame, the Boy rushes away. Poignantly aware at last of her own love and overcome with remorse, the Woman seeks him out, begs forgiveness. He is stony with hate: That is rather a waste of your time...
Fortnight ago on condition that he be sentenced to no more than 15 years, Ronald Finney pleaded guilty to 31 counts of forgery and the sale of forged bonds. Last week he appeared in court to receive his sentence. The county attorney recommended to the court that he receive a 15-year sentence. Looking down sternly from his bench Judge Paul H. Heinz refused to be a party to the bargain...
...those who would spend it well? I am Socialistic in a great many things, and this sort of thing makes me see more Right in the Left." Another legal action disclosed last week was that of the Duchess of Marlborough against the vulgar U. S. funnysheet Hooey. Sale of the magazine in Great Britain was stopped when the onetime Gladys Deacon of Boston took offense at a cartoon in the November issue. The cartoon: a dowager in her garden gapes at two scrawny rosebushes, with their roots close together, their stems intertwined, and their single blossoms cheek by jowl...