Word: version
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...badly of them." The U. S. Law No. 2 says simply: "A Scout is loyal. He is loyal to all to whom loyalty is due: his Scout Leader, his home and parents and country." Aside from the fact that loyalty to employers is not mentioned in the U. S. version out of deference to such organizations as John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers, who at one time looked askance at the Scouts, the difference is typical. Otherwise the parallelism is perfect through all the first nine Scout laws (Trustworthiness, Loyalty, Helpfulness ["at least one good turn every day"], Friendliness...
...startled London, no effort was made to get the Queen Mother to furnish such confirmation, but neither new King George nor anyone else denied that his elder brother had given history the correct version of who was responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable...
...Board adjourned Tom Girdler hurried off to Washington to testify before the Senate Post Offices Committee on C.I.O. interference with the mails, a subject which the committee later voted to drop. In fighting fettle, the tightlipped, hooknosed, bespectacled steelman put on an exciting show. Having read a spiced-up version of the statement given to the Mediation Board, Mr. Girdler immediately opened up on Pennsylvania's Senator Guffey, no member of the Post Offices Committee but on hand for a morning of Girdler-baiting. The Committee had understood from Philip Murray and Senator Guffey that the steelmen did have...
...foreign version of The Girl Said No, music from Princess Tingaling was substituted. Against U. S. screenings the D'Oyly Carte Company, whose British copyrights will not expire until 1961. can only protest. All credit for this costless coup goes to Producer Andrew L. Stone, who was immediately signed up by Paramount...
What McCreery's is doing is currently being done in one form or another by many & many a U. S. retailer-broadening and easing the base of installment selling. McCreery's demands regular payments on its accounts, usually in ten weekly installments. Another version is the "Letter of Credit," developed by Philadelphia's Lit Brothers and now widely emulated. The letter of credit, issued by the store's credit department, is given to the sales clerk, who notes on the letter the amount of each purchase, the customer being able to buy up to the limit...