Word: totally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same prediction is made sometimes by Democrats-that in the event Herbert Clark Hoover is inaugurated on March 4. the "vast," the "stupendous," the "intricate," "delicate," "finely adjusted" mechanism of U. S. business to which Nominee Hoover so often and so seriously alludes, will arrive at an almost total standstill four months later...
...games achieved a touchdown, journeyed to Cambridge last week. As soon as the game began, Harvard's Capt. French fumbled his centre's pass which led to an Army touchdown. A kick for the point, another touchdown and a safety brought the Army's total to 15. Harvard scored no points...
From the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, Tenn., last week came a strange suggestion to the nuns of his diocese. "Don't vote," he said in effect. His reason: the obvious hostile comment upon nuns' voting would be that they were helping to swell the Smith vote total and that the Church was massed for Smith; this he wished to avoid...
...Knoedler Gallery managed to secure Meindert Hobbema's The Hamlet in the Wood for $158,400, the highest price of the auction. Messrs. Colnaghi of London bought Rembrandt's Portrait of Burgomaster Six for $39,600, the world's record price for an etching. A total of 64 paintings and 10 Rembrandt etchings were sold. The sales realized $925,012. Of this sum $250,000 had changed hands in four minutes. Auctioner Muller could well afford to smile on the River Amstel. His firm had received the customary 10%, amounting in this case to $92,500. Displaying...
Lord Melchett returned from Canada, conferred privately and lengthily in Manhattan. Speculators, scorning merger denials, made hasty calculations. Assets of International Nickel total $75,000,000. Together with the Mond company's assets of $40,000,000, the new international nickel trust would be worth between $115,000,000 and $125,000,000. It would control all but a small fraction of the nickel supply of the world. To close the deal, speculators foresaw a split-up of International Nickel common stock, followed by an exchange of both International and Mond stock for shares in the new trust. Trading...