Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solvay & Cie is "one of the most powerful chemical companies in the world," interested in I. G. Farbenindustrie of Germany and in British Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. The aim of the Solvay interests in wanting to elect new directors is to steal information for use by Allied's rivals. "The American Chemical industry is today fighting to maintain that [the American] market for American capital and American labor against the organized, combined and ruthless attacks of foreign competition...
...year. Ellington will sit at the piano, play a theme over, try a dozen different variations. Spidery Freddy Jenkins may see an ideal spot for a hot double-quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets all his players have their say but listens particularly to the shrewd advice of pale Cuban Juan Tizol, his valve trombonist...
...approved by the President. Each such code was to ration production so that some plants would not work 24 hours per day while others stood idle, to reduce working hours so that more employees could find jobs, to set up a minimum wage so that sweatshop operators could not steal the market, to give labor a free hand so that it could organize and bargain collectively. Industrial minorities which refused to subscribe to majority codes could be put out of business, if necessary, by the President's power to set up a rigorous licensing system.* Any industry which failed...
...Denville, N. J. Jones told Richards that his grave was in the bed of a dried-up stream, that heavy rains threatened to wash him out, that he intended to stay underground 40 days if he could. Richards told Jones that bandits came to his grave, tried to steal the day's cash receipts, threw burning matches down his air tube, singed his pillows...
...Metropolitan planned to put on Merry Mount in 1932 but Composer Hanson had not finished with his music. It was scheduled then for last winter when hard times intervened and it was shelved again. Last week Manager Gatti-Casazza generously permitted the University of Michigan to steal a march on him. The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival. Solemn as Supreme Court judges, University students sat behind a bench backstage to sing the Puritans' choral music. Ann Arbor's festival singers sat on the stage...