Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate did reject a recess appointee would any decisions which he took part in on the bench, prior to rejection, be legal...
President of France (at Montfaucon at 2 p. m.) and the President of the U. S. (from his yacht in the Potomac River at 9 a. m.) took to the radio in an international hookup. Together with dignitaries and politicians of both nations gathered at Montfaucon, they celebrated the completion of twelve European monuments and eight cemeteries glorifying and interring 31,000 American soldiers who died to make the World Safe for Democracy...
Expensive Onslaught. Well might a costly symbol of Victory rise above Montfaucon Memorial, looking down on Argonne Forest. There took place the biggest battle in U. S. History. There was lost the Lost Battalion. There the Tennessee Conscientious Objector Alvin York captured 132 Germans. There, in 47 days of storming into the face of the Hindenburg Line about 123,000 Americans were killed or wounded. Some 900,000 others, nearly as many as the Confederacy mustered in four years, came through unscathed to live to tell the tale of the final break-through to Sedan and draw their bonuses...
...certain industries like automobiles there was no doubt that the margin of profit was narrowing. Chrysler Corp., in spite of its five-week strike last spring. sold 629,706 cars and trucks in the first six months of 1937. a record; It took in $409,000,000 compared with $358,000.000 in the same period last year. Yet profits were down from $29.000.000 to $27,000,000. Even in the June quarter when Chrysler had little to charge off to strikes, the company's profit margin showed a sharp drop, from 19.8% in 1930 to 14.7% in 1937. Labor...
While investigating the dark bog of protective committees and corporate reorganizations, the Securities & Exchange Commission took a long look at the Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, the quasi-public body whose duty it is to salvage something for the luckless owners of foreign dollar bonds. On the whole the Council received a clean bill of health from SEC. But the SECommissioners are perfectionists at heart, and in their report to Congress last May they had several suggestions to make...