Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, both oldsters went to the post for the first time at California's newest and finest track. A crowd of 18,000 turned out to see the old argument finally decided, watched a four-year-old filly named High Glee win the seven-furlong race by two lengths with a new track record. Mate was second. Twenty Grand three-and-a-half lengths behind...
...course your real objection is based on the report that representatives of the largest religious communion in Boston had something to do with banning the play. I should say after glancing at the play, that they had a perfectly good interest in the matter. But whatever argument you have to the contrary, it is tiresome to have it wrapped in the guise of a yen for art. A. J. Lynd...
...from text books. The Borro portrait has been variously ascribed to Velasquez, Bernini, Carreño de Miranda, Tinelli, Andrea Sacchi and others. The Frick Museum was not to be caught. All these claims were listed on the back of the photograph and a brief summary of the entire argument attached...
...House is now being dragged into industrial promotion, though as yet His Majesty the Son of Heaven is sacrosanct. Latest pictures show the Divine Emperor's popular brother Prince Chichibu seated grinning in a Datsun (see cut). Screams a recent Datsun advertisement: "FIRST NO LAST." This peculiar sales argument is stated more fully thus: FIRST Motor Car Produced in Japan In Performance and Quality In Public Favor...
Last week President Roosevelt fired a broadside of facts & figures to confound the "widow-&-orphan" argument. Releasing a special survey made by the Federal Power Commission, he pointed out that the six biggest New York life insurance companies had placed only 9% of their assets in utility securities, that 15 other insurance companies averaged less than 10%, that New York State savings banks averaged less than 3%. Furthermore, the utility bonds of 51 big insurance companies showed an aggregate increase in value since 1929 of $109,000,000. Adding that prime utility operating bonds were now selling at the highest...