Word: save
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord & Thomas sent me to Washington to ghost a thin book for Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. I never got to meet Mr. Mellon but the book, How to Save Your Savings: by Andrew W. Mellon must have pleased...
...Before leaving the cutter Samuel Insull gave newshawks a prepared statement: "I have erred, but my greatest error was in underestimating the effect of the financial panic on American securities and particularly on the companies I was working so hard to build. "I worked with all my energy to save those companies. I made mistakes, but they were honest mistakes. They were errors in judgment but not dishonest manipulations. ". . . You only know the charges of the prosecution. Not one word has been uttered in even a feeble defense of me. And it must be obvious that there also...
...part of the H.A.A.'s economy program the proposal to close Hemenway Gymnasium next year was officially approved yesterday by a vote of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports. Closing the building is expected to save the H.A.A. a large part of the present $11,000 expenditure per year...
...with Shella Aiken (Claire Dodd). Meanwhile Lady Lee again becomes entangled with her former employer in the syndicate. Mutual jealousy arises; and after an incidental trial for murder and a highly dramatic card game between Lady and Shella, Lady divorces Madison because it is the only way she can save him from a false murder charge, and at the same time play the game square with all concerned. After the divorce, they both find out what really went on; they make up, and leave on a honeymoon to Norway. Through all the intricacies of the plot, Barbara Stanwyck seems...
...armaments are an incentive, one of the main causes of war. . . . No reason for war remains except sudden profits for the 50 men who run the munitions racket. . . . The first real step . . . is the destruction of the world-wide munitions racket. It will cost millions of dollars. It will save millions of lives...