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...exact terms of these compromises are being fought out at Bretton Woods. Whatever the terms, Congress and Parliament will certainly criticize them and perhaps reject them. In fact, only one provision of the proposal is not likely to be criticized: after a three-year breathing spell no member shall (except by special permission of the Fund) use any devices that prevent businessmen from buying and selling freely in every country...
While Thomas Dewey made money in church choirs and explored torts at Columbia, Frances Hutt spent two years on the stage, including a spell as a singer in George White's Scandals. By 1928 Thomas Dewey had made two decisions. Forced to sing at an important concert when he had a sore throat, he decided once & for all that he could not let his future depend on such a fragile thing as his vocal chords. And he married Frances Hutt, who immediately retired from the stage, in time became the mother of Thomas Edmund Jr. (now 11) and John...
...been muggy. Mining families, staring from the windows of their shabby-colored clapboard houses, were pleased to see the black clouds rolling up, with lightning flaring off in the distance. They hoped for a storm, as people do, to break the humid spell. At 8:30 p.m., in the 25 drab company houses that front on U.S. Route 19 as it climbs through Pleasant Hill, W. Va., supper was over, the dishes done, and the youngest children tucked away in bed. At 8:50 the windows rattled menacingly, like a snake giving warning. At 8:51 the storm came...
...great Southern revolt looked like a shrewdly planned, carefully controlled sulking spell...
...profits, at a bumper prospect of 30 bu. an acre. They figured they would get $1.50 a bu., biggest price in a good year since 1919. By day, the farmers fretted over the things that could go wrong. Hail storms or heavy rain could lay whole fields flat. A spell of 100-degree heat might cause the grain to shatter. Some times insects scourged the land just before the harvest...