Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...career for three years, but during those three years the sheriff's fees would reach a good fat sum, perhaps $40,000, at any rate much more than could be made at law. So down among the bars where he sometimes caroused between bouts of terrific hard work, word was passed around that "Big Steve" was out for sheriff. The Buffalo Courier cried: "He is at the same time so true a gentleman, so generous, modest and lovable a man that we have never heard of anybody's envying him. . . . His very name is a host...
Factoring in the U. S. grew up around the textile trade in the 19th Century, although the old British common law term was not used generally until Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes applied the word when he was in private practice. The textile industry, with its thousands of small, independent mills, is still the biggest factoring field. In the past five years, however, the factors have taken to such lines as shoes, furs, gloves, lumber, fuel oil. In the case of James Talcott, Inc. these new industries are largely handled by associated factors, the company itself merely refactoring, which...
...Justice grew suspicious that it was a combination in restraint of trade, launched anti-trust proceedings in 1931. The trial lasted six months, the briefs filled 1,500 pages, the testimony 10,000 pages. In 1934 Manhattan's Federal Judge Julian William Mack handed down a 100,000-word opinion, holding among other things that the Institute and its members, who accounted for most of the sugar refined in the U. S., were clearly out to "preserve uniformity in price structure and to maintain relatively high prices...
...Your question, it deals with an institution, an institution of learning, a college!" He uttered the word "college" in a triumphal stage whisper, as if pleased to discover that the parietal rule did not deal with an Old Folks Home. Continuing, "This has to do with a regulation of the college . . . in connection with women. . . . Hm. But it will only work to disadvantage. They will abolish it. It is imperative...
When the large four story building near Dunster House facing the Charles, which houses the Maintenance Department, receives word of a snow fall of two or more inches, it prepares to send out its tractors and ploughs...