Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold and relics of the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Stumbling along the shaft, Van Steck came upon 45 additional bars, refused to share them with his partners, hurried to the settlement to file a claim, leaving native pack drivers on guard. The 80 bars, each stamped with the seal of the Spanish royal crown, are valued at $1,120,000. Dazzled by so much wealth, Hill intrigued with the native drivers, fired at Van Steck as he returned from the settlement, missed, fled into the mountains...
...lion lovers on the Pacific Coast were further horrified last week when California's Governor Frank Finley Merriam signed a law providing that the Fish & Game Commission be "empowered to reduce the seal or sea lion herds by humane methods whenever such a course is deemed advisable, and to sell the animals, the pelts or carcasses. . . ." But reassurance came when it appeared that the Commission had no intention of using its destructive powers for several years, until the herds had increased to the point where control measures are necessary. The amendment also tightened the restrictions against killing or capturing...
...admission of Egypt to the League," said he, "sets the seal upon her independence." What he did not say was that with her Dominions and protectorates represented in Geneva, Britain now had eight votes she can direct or control...
...King has been pleased by letters patent under the great seal of the realm, bearing the date of the 27th of May, 1937, to declare that the Duke of Windsor shall, notwithstanding his instrument of abdication executed on the 10th day of December, 1936, and His Majesty's Declaration of the Abdication Act of 1936, whereby effect was given to the said instrument, be entitled to hold and enjoy for himself only the title, style or attribute of Royal Highness, so however that his wife and descendants, if any, shall not hold said title, style or attribute...
...last March in the Pittsburgh offices of the biggest steel-producing unit in the world, Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee and President Benjamin Franklin Fairless of Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. sat down to seal an historic industrial treaty. The broad outlines of the treaty between Steel and Labor had already been settled by the negotiators' respective superiors, John Llewellyn Lewis for Labor and Myron Charles Taylor for Steel (TIME, March 15). After the first talk Philip Murray declared: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor Movement...