Word: stokeses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FAIR PLAY - Munro Leaf - Stokes ($1.50).
The Torguts-W. L. River-Stokes ($2.50). Based on the migration of the Torgut Mongols from the Volga to their Chinese homeland in 1771, this long, stiff-jointed "epic" leaves a picture of vast hordes, no individuals.
> Senior Laborite M. P. Colonel Josiah Wedgwood, who has given the House of Commons many an unorthodox thought on Palestine, taxes, President Roosevelt and India, bet Laborite M. P. Richard Stokes ?5 ($20) that London would not be bombed during the War's first six months. Owner of big...
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren.
Up to this week there was no body of information available to British press or public on which any such charges as those of Richard Stokes could be made to stick in a court of law. But everyone was hearing stories of disgruntled contractors who complained of price rigging on...