Word: sevenths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months were spent by the House in calling the roll; 3) the first three months were principally frittered away in a prolonged wrangle over the $4,880,000.000 relief appropriation; 4) the second three months were distinguished by passage of the Greenback Bonus Bill which was vetoed; 5) the seventh month was marked by the passage of the dubious National Labor Relations Act. Most of Senator Robinson's pride sprang from what happened in Congress during the last month when the Social Security Act, the Motor Carriers Act, the Spanish War Veterans Act were put through, when conference committees...
...blood red globe, symbol of World Revolution, hung before the Seventh World Communist Party Congress in Moscow last week, flanked by huge posters showing Karl Marx's hairy halo, Friedrich Engels' waterfall mustache, the bald cranium and spiked beard of Lenin and Joseph Stalin's well-oiled, glistening locks. For a month 600 Reds of all nations have been non-paying guests in Moscow, candidly preparing Revolution in all countries despite the Soviet State's pledge to President Roosevelt that it "would not permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group...
...railroads were built before the Indians had been pacified; industrialization was developed before the country was fully explored; the passage of history that in other sections of the West was spread over generations was here compressed into little more than a decade. Last week Harold L. Davis won the seventh $7,500 Harper Prize Novel Contest with a story laid in this period of Oregon history...
...office. Some are empty handed; others lug heavy sample cases. Office boys dart in & out carrying their cards. The salesman's object is to wheedle the buyer into visiting his firm's showroom. Such an excursion will never take her outside the area bounded by Seventh Avenue, Madison Avenue, 30th Street and 42nd Street. At the manufacturer's showrooms the buyer may spend a whole day in a booth inspecting dress goods, sometimes on live models. She generally visits four or five showrooms before placing her orders...
...heels of the dividend announcement came another. By approval of the two boards of directors Inland was merged with 93-year-old Joseph T. Ryerson & Son, independent steel and iron company, with Ryerson in the status of a wholly owned subsidiary. With this addition Inland moves up to seventh rank among the nation's steel companies, with a capitalization of $116,000,000. Fifty-nine shares of Inland stock will be issued for each 100 shares of Ryerson turned...