Word: waits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...court cannot reduce salaries or wages-the railroad is too poverty-stricken to engage in a strike or a quarrel of any kind or wait for the Labor Board to decide what the wages shall be ... the decision must be theirs [the employes']. . . ." Simultaneously Judge Howe reversed his earlier stand, allowed creditors to sue. The ink was scarcely dry on his ruling when three banks (Central Hanover Bank and Trust Co., United States Trust Co. of New York, Old Colony Trust Co.) filed foreclosures on mortgages involving $9,250,000. This week Judge Howe is meeting with "all persons...
...handsomely, Berlin's 12 Uhr Blatt declared: "Max had to fight three opponents: Louis, advancing age and certain unfair machinations. If Max did not succeed, it was not because there is a better boxer than he, not because Louis is a superman. For two years Schmeling had to wait for a fight which was denied him against all the rules of fairness and sportsmanship...
June, the month of romance and graduations, is also "LETTER WRITING MONTH". . . . Should old acquaintance be forgot . . . loved ones be left to wait and wonder-all because you neglected to write a letter? Somewhere someone is waiting for your letter-waiting to say "I love you too" or "Yes, we have a job for you." Write a letter. . . . It's a habit well worth cultivating, for every letter that you write, is "Very truly yours...
Most countries wait until after their wars are over to show off their battlefields. Last week, however, Generalissimo Francisco Franco's newly opened Tourist Office announced that, beginning July 1, it would conduct tours into what was a year ago a bloody battlefield, is now a peaceful, although still partially ruined, countryside...
...when a syndicate of Hollywood bigwigs, headed by politically powerful Jack Warner, production chief of the $177,000,000 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., succeeded in getting permission to build a second racetrack in Los Angeles County (to operate during the summer), local businessmen suddenly went mum. They decided to wait until the community was saturated with year-round racing before attempting any organized crusade against...