Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, California and Mexico. The San Simeon ranch near Los Angeles containing more than 400 square miles has been assessed at $1,323,000 for taxation, but this figure is dwarfed by the value of the art treasures Mr. Hearst has piled upon the land. Mr. Hearst is sole owner of over 100 corporations...
...owner: "One word from you can prevent a recurrence of the human and economic waste which will result from the action taken by your company. For 40 years industrial conflict has broken out in Colorado as a result of similar attempts to secure operating profits at the sole expense of workers...
Neumann's hero is a political assassin. Hoff, former German officer, since the Revolution a professional dancer in a Berlin cabaret, is leader of an extreme group in an anti-Government party. This group decides to precipitate a counterrevolution by killing the Prime Minister; as leader. Hoff assumes sole responsibility for the job. He has everything figured out; all preparations made. Evening before the attempt, between dances at the cabaret. Hoff has a conversation with a man who looks so much like Hoff he might be his brother. They go home, spend the evening together. The man turns...
...hopes that its busy world-wide membership may have some influence. Delegates from 50 countries last week passed resolutions calling for revision of the Versailles Treaty, abolition of tariff barriers, abolition of national armaments. The German delegation held separate meetings to draw up a resolution absolving Germany of sole War guilt, later endorsed by the other delegates. The general resolutions committee took up the problem of unemployment, voted that the Y. M. C. A. should further socially ad- ministered insurance against invalidism, occupational injuries, want in old age, enforced unemployment. Most ambitious was Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore...
...what might be done for Germany. When the delegates met in London, the State Department in Washington released the text of the President's instructions to Delegate Stimson, declared it had been formally presented to the Conference. Acting Secretary of State Castle asserted that President Hoover was the sole author of this "American proposal." A muddle developed when Delegate Stimson denied that he had received any "new Hoover plan" or presented it to the Conference. The ideas, he declared, were the joint product of the U. S. and Great Britain, whose Prime Minister had outlined practically the same proposal...