Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortunate position of the Soviet Jews. Nevertheless, the problems of Germany must be solved! There is no such thing as saying it cannot be done. It can be done-because it must be done! . . . Let [Russia] carry her Soviet star, we will conquer in the sign of the swastika. If the hour ever comes when our old adversary makes an attempt upon us, you will be standing beside, behind and before me, and will help me fight...
Chemical Education. "The young graduate comprehends too little of the economic aspects of his work. It is still true that industrialists must think in terms of income and outgo, in terms of sales revenue and costs. The student can hardly learn too soon that the dollar sign is an unwritten but potent factor in every industrial chemical education."-Emile F. du Pont, personnel manager of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...
...more precious and expensive. The artist printed fewer and fewer proofs, limiting the total to from 25 to 100 and then destroyed the plate. And he charged correspondingly more for each proof because they were so few. Furthermore about 65 years ago it became customary for the artist to sign each print in pencil, no doubt to show that he approved of its quality...
...headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were hired also. The Line refused. After six days' delay and $50,000 loss to the Line, the Department of Labor's pudgy Trouble-Shooter Edward Fitzgerald persuaded Secretary Harry Lundeberg of the Sailors' Union of the Pacific to cool off the crew...
Diplomats of the Great Powers had high hopes last week of getting the Madrid Cabinet and the provisional President of its foes, General Miguel Cabanellas, to sign their solemnly drafted pact for "humanizing the Spanish Civil War," ending both Red and White atrocities. Before General Cabanellas could be heard from, new Premier Largo Caballero flatly rejected for Madrid all "humanizing," took for the Spanish Government the position that this is a fratricidal struggle so desperate that everything goes and must continue...