Word: signed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm for profit -just for fun. Now there will be no more hunts. My decision is unequivocal. . . ." Next day, the Ligonier Board of Trade circulated a petition pledging farmers to permit Rolling Rock foxhunters to ride over their land, got all but six of the 240 farmers to sign it. Said the Board of Trade Secretary Edward Grombach, who owns a harness and auto supply store: "We can't help what the strikers have done and we'd be mighty sorry to see Mr. Mellon...
Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...House voted, 75 to 36, to make the Plummer-Schrepel 3.2% beer bill the new prohibition law of Kansas. Democratic Governor Walter A. Huxman had already announced that he would sign any prohibition bill providing a reasonable definition of "intoxicating" beverages. Thus, last week, a squiggle of his pen made two Drys the unwilling fathers of legal beer in Kansas...
Producer Le Roy, who had seen him in French pictures and on the stage of the little theatre which Actor Gravet and his wife run in Paris, persuaded him to sign a contract for three pictures by promising to select and direct them all. Having completed the first, afraid of losing his appeal for U. S. audiences by becoming too thoroughly Americanized, Actor Gravet recently returned to Paris, where he maintains an army of 30,000 toy soldiers of which a few members always travel with their owner...
...matter of House Plays, which have come to be traditional in each of the Houses, Winthrop has gone in for the less robust type of production. In fact, the plays have always been of a more or less delicate nature, which do not require the "Men Only" sign. This year's production, "East Lynne" will be given during the first week in April...