Word: toto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that the $600,000 paid was for services rendered by the carriers prior to the cancelation of their contracts; the fact that the carriers withdrew their claims for damages in toto; the fact that the Government paid not one cent in reparation for the cancelation; the fact that nearly 20 top men of the airline companies had to be summarily ousted before the Government would consider proposals for new airmail contracts; and the fact that the canceled contracts were not reinstated, but new contracts were placed on a strictly competitive basis in accordance with the law; are conclusive evidence...
...They do things so funny in Cleveland. This whole thing is really terrific." What made pert, red-headed Toto Leverne thus exclaim last week was the French Casino's canvas top which one night leaked buckets of rain on her naked body, spoiled her swan dance. But for the 250,000 people who last week gaped at Dancer Leverne and other exhibits of Cleveland's Great Lakes Exposition, her remark was the perfect tribute to a city's spirited struggle to lift itself up & out of Depression...
...Dancer Sally Rand was more responsible for the success of Chicago's Century of Progress (1933-34) than any other single individual. Stripped of all its cultural appeal, the Great Lakes Exposition will be put across, if at all, by the bare body of Toto Leverne as displayed five times a day to the 1,000 pop-eyed customers of the French Casino. A Scottish lass, born Trudeye Davison, Toto Leverne went to Northwestern University for two years, quit in 1934 to dance...
...White Paper which it had taken the lead in negotiating. This lightning change occurred after Adolf Hitler sent to London by his special Ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop last week a six-page reply to the White Paper, the gist of which was that Germany rejected its terms in toto and that the Great Powers must mark time until the Realmleader should send them his proposals for what is to be done about Germany's rupture of treaties. Ambassador von Ribbentrop explained that Der Fuhrer was so busy winning a German election (see p. 25) that his proposals would...
...Next they would strive to create for the world an international currency of constant and unfluctuating value with international bonds paying a modest rate of interest secured by all the world's governments. The lucrative armament industry would be made a State monopoly and its profits secured in toto by the State...