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Robert C. Laserte -- Miss Betty Sweeten, Jackson College...
...Winter's Tale, basks in the the golden glow of the master's genius; the sweet country air runs all through it, and few, if any, of his plays leave a pleasanter picture in one's memory. "As long as men can think, Perdita shall brighten and sweeten, Hermione ennoble, mens' minds and lives...
...Jones knew perfectly well that the public would never buy new 4% Central bonds when they could pick up old Central issues in the open market that would yield them 4¾%. So he proposed to sweeten the new bonds with the privilege of converting them into Central common stock at $25 per share. Since Central stock once sold above $200 per share, this conversion feature was calculated to give the bonds a pleasant speculative flavor...
...fresh vote of confidence in the Chamber, 457 to 120, defeating a Socialist motion to take away from Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the treasured "secret funds" of the Quai d'Orsay, traditionally used to sweeten the French Press. In effect the Chamber thus endorsed a double-barreled speech by M. Laval last week in which he fired blandishments and menaces at Adolf Hitler: "We shall ask of other countries that they assure conjointly with us a police mission for the eventual re-establishment of order. . . . Chancellor Hitler affirms his wish for peace. We ask him by associating in the policy...
...Grace's suggestion was received with marked apathy not only by businessmen but by nearly all politicians, anxious to sweeten taxpayers' tempers. Raged Economist Francis W. Hirst in the Times...