Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mine selling price of every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...forced code compliance, promised decision on his application for a permanent injunction within ten days. Justice Adkins gave the coal man a temporary injunction restraining his company from complying voluntarily with the code. President Carter wanted that because his stockholders, who are also members of his family, wanted to sign up without any legal quibbling...
...strong epithets against the British flew, Rome's haberdashery shop The Prince of Wales was forced to change its name to The Prince of Piedmont; the Hôtel d'Angleterre draped a Fascist banner over its name; gregarious Miss Babington removed from her window the provocative sign "English Teas"; and police averted the destruction by an enraged mob of the Eden Hotel-although aristocratic young Captain Eden is emphatically "not in trade...
...gold financed the Chinese civil war which enabled General Chiang to set up the Nanking Government with himself as Dictator (TIME, April 25, 1927). This week prompt Japanese rage at Nanking's fresh talk of Russia erupted in grim remarks by Japanese militarists that at the first real sign of a Nanking switchback toward Moscow, soldiers of the Divine Emperor will drive a Japanese wedge of conquest between the Soviet Union and China by seizing border lands...
Crowds at college football games this year are roughly 12% above last year's, about equal to those of 1929. That this year's figures are above last year's is not entirely a sign of reviving prosperity. More than ever alive to the importance of the sport, college officials have rearranged their schedules. Instead of easy set-ups early in the season to prepare for climactic games later, most major teams now play able opponents exclusively, draw correspondingly bigger crowds. Rules designed to encourage forward passes and spectacular ground plays have made the game more attractive...