Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Machlup, who was Lecturer on Economics here three years ago, will take Professor Haberler's place in courses on international trade and business cycles. He received the degree of Doctor Rerum Politicarum from the University of Vienna...
...into the show was when daddy and I came up for the opening he happened to ask me if I'd like a part. It seems they had just fired a girl, and needed somebody to take her place. I've been at loose ends for a couple of months now, so I said 'sure'. And here...
...partisanship in the Spanish war, the Pope followed the advice of his Spanish bishops. But a majority of U. S. Catholics, according to a recent Gallup poll, do not see eye to eye with the Holy Father and the Spanish hierarchy. The Gallup figures: 58% of Catholics who take sides favor Franco, about 33% of all Catholics sympathize with neither side; thus, Franco partisans number only some 38% of U. S. Catholics, and in the general population they are even fewer...
...Corporations can and should take steps to place upon their boards working directors who are adequately compensated, and the responsibilities of those directors should be made commensurate with their trust. . . . The paid director, familiar with the affairs of his company, could not live in peaceful and happy ignorance, oblivious to the fact that warehouses and inventories which his company owns are figments of a criminal imagination...
...second time; in London. Last November, when he wanted to rejoin his Russian bride, Grover was unable to get a Russian visa, flew into Russia without a permit, was jailed. Last fortnight he was let off with a fine of 1,500 rubles ($300), allowed to take his wife to England. The second marriage ceremony was necessary because the first was not recorded by a British consul...