Word: uproars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Fink skimmed home first in the fourth race, the Coast Guard cutters and yachts along the finish line greeted him with an uproar of foghorns and whistles but it still looked as though the eleven points the committee had taken away from him would cost him his title. Starting the fifth and last race. Glenn Waterhouse of San Francisco had 51 points and Fink would have to finish four places ahead of his Three Star Two and two places ahead of Edwin Thome's Mist to win. Still em- broiled with the committee. Fink was ordered to haul...
...constitutional convention because in 1906 oil had not yet been extensively developed in Oklahoma; 2) Governor Haskell, on retiring borrowed vacation money not from the State but from private friends; 3) his transfer of the State capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City followed a referendum, caused a great constitutional uproar and was finally confirmed by the State Supreme Court. TIME apologizes for these factual errors but has no apology to make for the general impression it conveyed of the Haskell career...
...skill of its actors makes its gaudy situations credible. Boleslavsky's version of the Sarajevo incident is probably Hollywood's high to date - if only for the shot of a brass band saluting the Archduke's arrival, with the cymbalist sadly exalted by the uproar of his own playing...
President Roosevelt had lingered long and uncertainly over this third most important diplomatic appointment. He had chosen a quiet, scholarly North Carolina Protestant who could be counted on to keep his head amid Germany's racial uproar. The day of his appointment Dr. Dodd was digging in his Chicago flower garden when a newshawk asked him: "You talk German fluently?" "Yes," chuckled the professor, "that's what has got me into this trouble...
Rather than Banker Morgan & Partners the real target of the tax uproar was seen to be the capital gains & losses provision of the Revenue Act. For the House of Morgan that provision came into play for tax reduction purposes when on Jan. 2. 1931 S. Parker Gilbert was about to be taken into the partnership. As usual, the old partners sold the business to the new partners by a revaluation of assets which showed a capital loss of $21,000,000. By apportioning this among the partners, they were all legally able to show the Treasury that their income...