Word: vitale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost certainly be less of a nonentity than Widow Caraway, but there were other reasons which made Governor Bailey reluctant to appoint her. Widow Caraway was given a temporary appointment by Governor Parnell only to find she liked it so well that she refused to give it up. So vital to Mr. Farley was the immediate appointment of a New Deal Senator, that when the funeral train departed Joe Keenan was left behind to reason with Governor Bailey...
...colleagues wanted to know if Mr. Babson had told his businessmen subscribers, in a special letter of his Babson's Reports, that U. S. churches have accumulated "useless customs and cobwebs"? Had he further remarked that the German Government in emphasizing a creed based on "four simple but vital foundations" (Faith, Blood, Sacrifice, Love) "may be taking a forward step which our churches should have taken long...
...most vital French news event of last week occurred in England, where Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon quietly asked of Parliament, and very shortly was granted, leave to add a billion dollars (?200,000,000) to the Exchange Equalization Fund of $750,000,000 with which John Bull has been operating in the world's money markets. He revealed that last March 30 the Fund possessed 26.674,000 oz. of fine gold, or $933,590,000 worth, compared to $2,584470,000 owned by the Bank of England and $11,000,000,000 worth...
...Manhattan department store. Among other young women on moderate salaries the McCreery solicitors were seeking applications for "membership" in McCreery's "Junior Club." Stripped of merchandising hocuspocus, McCreery's "Junior Club" was merely a drive for new charge accounts. The application blanks requested the usual vital statistics, the applicant's name was turned over to a credit agency for the usual check...
...Classes of Harvard graduates that return to honor the University this week, by far the most important is 1912. Men coming back to their twenty-fifth reunion hold a particularly vital position, not only in the official reunion ceremonies, but in the body of the University itself. For it is to these men, all in the prime of life and yet with most productive and useful years still in store, that the University looks for support and guidance...