Word: takings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal Party stalwarts, including Tacho's uncle and stooge, arthritic, old (76) President Victor Roman y Reyes, turned out to acclaim "our guide and presidential candidate." Said scheming Tacho: "If at the legal time of the election the people maintain the determination they have demonstrated today, I shall take the place the Liberal Party has ordered me to take...
Last week, as the two men sat down together again, it looked as if Perón had begun to take some of the ambassador's advice. The government had just announced that trade debts to U.S. banks, once over $300 million, had been cut to half that figure, would henceforth be systematically reduced by applying against the debt one-fifth of the dollars the U.S. pays for Argentine goods. To stimulate U.S. trade, imports & exports hitherto state-traded would be allowed to revert to private hands. Most important of all, Argentina would sell its crop surpluses at going...
Playwright George S. Kaufman, 59 (Of Thee I Sing, You Can't Take It with You), and British-born Actress Leueen MacGrath, 34, who played the friendly secretary in the Mayfair, Broadway and movie versions of Edward, My Son, applied for a marriage license in Doylestown...
...brightest prospect was the first response to the new policy at the Palace. The opening day's receipts came to 2½ times the normal take, and the rest of the week held up as well...
...black cats is something that Jones has no time for, but he shares his predecessor's ability to glance at a horse and tell how it feels. On the way to the track for a morning workout, he frequently flabbergasts an exercise boy, as Hildreth used to, by saying "Take that filly back to the barn...