Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chancellor of England, Frederick Edwin Smith, Baron and Earl of Birkenhead, now Secretary of State for India, introduced this bill into Parliament. Both the Lords and Commoners felt obliged to honor the weight of legal prestige behind the measure, and passed it. When British barristers realized its revolutionary import, special lectures bearing upon its interpretation were instituted by legal bodies throughout England...
...special corps of 200 accountants had told Mr. Dillon that the N. C. R. Co. concern possessed assets of 41 millions, exclusive of patent rights which were nominally set at $1, and of good will which was not reckoned at all; that it had an annual business of 40 millions (85% of the world's cash register orders); that its 900,000 shares of common stock profited $40.69 per share last year after 7% had been paid on 9½ millions worth of preferred; that there was no funded debt...
January 16 Special Examination from 9.15 to 12.15 o'clock in Memorial Hall...
...Mansbridge holds honorary degrees from Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester, and has for years been closely identified with the movement to improve the position of Labor. He is on his way to California to give a series of lectures there, and is making a special trip to Cambridge for this talk...
...special significance is to be attached to this one of many recent consolidations in all branches of industry, it is that the Standard Oil Companies have of recent years taken an increasing interest in production of oil. Time was when Standard was content to let independents produce, provided Standard could refine all the oil used. But the development of independent producers into independent refiners and distributors has apparently caused Standard to extend its control of production...