Word: soled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richmond. A city Assembly of 23 members would be formed, one member from each State Senatorial district in the city. There would be but one district attorney, one sheriff, no borough presidents. All executive functions of the city would be under the Mayor except the office of Comptroller whose sole function would be to report to the electorate the state of the city's finances...
...addition to this move, the members approved the new constitution by which the two undergraduate marshals will be reduced to one, and a recording secretary will take the place of the second Marshal. Accordingly, for the remainder of this year, K. W. McMahan '33 will act as the sole undergraduate Marshal, while Richard Inglis, Jr. '33 will serve as Recording Secretary...
Trouble with rascally circulation men, most of whom are trained in the rough-&-tumble school of delivery trucks and loading platforms, is an occasional experience of many a U. S. newspaper publisher. It may be the circulation manager himself who is corrupt. If so. his sole concern is to ascertain how much circulation the publisher wants, to enhance his reputation as a hustler by getting it, foully if necessary. A threadbare device is for the circulation manager to raise the salary of a district man. ostensibly for showing bigger sales. The district man is allowed to pocket part...
...strain of paying interest on foreign loans in depreciated yen, the industry has fallen upon evil days. Profits of 10% or 12% have shrunk to 4% or 5%, dividends have been pared or omitted entirely. Last week Baron Seinosuke Goh, head of Tokyo Electric, declared that the sole hope of Japan's power & light industry was a merger of all the leading units...
...companies licensed some of the pooled patents to outsiders (the minimum royalty rate was reduced from $100,000 to $10,000 after the suit began and the fee from 7½% to 5% of sales), but did not pay each other for their use. Now RCA will be the sole licensing agent, General Electric and Westinghouse will pay for what they use on the same basis as outsiders, and all patents available to them will be available to the trade at the same rates. RCA will be able to enter important fields hitherto barred to it, including the manufacture...