Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great Britain there is yet no sign of any real abatement or check of activity. Here the production of capital goods, based upon the combination of Cheap Money and Confidence, remains at a high level. . . . But in view of the serious recession which has unquestionably occurred in America, and the severe shocks to confidence which have been administered, it would be unwise to anticipate any sustained [world] recovery...
...State minister at Rome accredited to "Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia" had to be done by George VI. Mr. de Valera therefore posted a letter direct to Buckingham Palace, advised His Majesty to take the necessary action, enclosed the official papers for him to sign...
Said Mr. Hogan: "It was my understanding from what Mr. Jackson said that if all the parties concerned signed the consent decree there would be no indictments by the Milwaukee grand jury." Lawyer Hogan quoted Lawyer Jackson as saying that the jury would be told: "We have accomplished all we wanted you jurors to accomplish and we recommend that you drop your proceedings." Concluded Lawyer Hogan: "Jackson said further that there could be no decree unless all were willing to sign. I was unwilling to sign...
...enforce its minimum, B. C. C. signs up producers to a code whereby each agrees to pay 1? per ton excise tax. Any producer who refuses to sign the code must pay a prohibitive tax of 19½% on his gross sales. So far 6,108 of the 6,315 U. S. bituminous mines have signed up, for coal producers, desperate after their many lean years, are nearly unanimous in favor of price fixing...
...betweens who sign up U. S. lecturers, arrange speaking dates, collect from local committees, are a tightly-knit, secretive, high-pressure group of Manhattan agents who have field representatives scattered throughout the U. S. They get 25% of lecture fees, 50% if they also supply railroad fare. Biggest of the four firms dominating the field is that of William Colston Leigh, burly, smartly-dressed Manhattan businessman who handles Carl Sandburg, Mrs. Roosevelt, some 37 other ranking literary figures. Oldest in the business is William ("Pop") B. Feakins, whose 35 authors, including leftists like John T. Flynn and rightists like Lawrence...