Word: soling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerves. They attribute it to the overconsumption of ill-cooked meat. They are apt, for this reason, to regard us as barbarian and gross. Only at one point does the French picture coincide with the German picture. The French share with the Germans a conviction of our hypocrisy. The sole difference is that, whereas the Germans regard us as brilliant hypocrites, the French regard us as very stupid hypocrites...
...years that he has had sole control of the Times, Harry Chandler has proved himself not only a capable newspaperman manager, but also an inspired capitalist. Back in 1899 he launched a syndicate which bought up 862,000 acres in Lower California. He and his associates built Hollywood, founded a vast agricultural colony at Calexico which produced $18,000,000 worth of cotton in 1919. He owns a 281,000-acre ranch in Los Angeles and Kern Counties stocked with fine cattle, a 340,000-acre hunting preserve in Colorado, an interest in another 500,000-acre sporting preserve...
...turned out, sole witness to support garrulous, bespectacled, aging Mr. Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister...
...breach between Italy and the League and in profound disturbance of France's entire policy in Central Europe. If Britain should invoke international principles, we shall be able to reply that she herself sells them cheaply when it is a question of modifying, by her sole decision, the entire naval status of the Reich...
...kind or another." Then he added hastily: "It will not be public investments. There is no such thing in my thoughts as service to the investing public." Last week "Sunshine Charlie" Mitchell apparently had a change of heart. He accepted a position as chairman of Blyth & Co. whose sole business is selling securities to the public...