Word: came
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poupette Gautier, chic unmarried personal secretary to Prime Minister André Tardieu, showed pique at the acclaim London papers continued to bestow on Statesman Stimson's "beauty chorus of typists." "Well, we French typists haven't any fur coats like the wonderful Americans," said Poupette, "but we came here to type reports and we shall type reports. One might think to read the papers that this was a style show...
...fairly numerous staff of passers must be paid. Also the amount of patience, time and care required- which might otherwise be spent in making money honestly-is great. But counterfeiters have their triumphs, however brief. Last week the Treasury at Washington and officials of the German and Swiss police came to a rueful conclusion. They think that a counterfeiting gang as yet uncaught has successfully placed in Central Europe at least $100,000 worth of spurious U. S. banknotes. They fear that the success and scope of the fraud may prove to be many times greater, perhaps ten times...
...Soviet anti-religious climaxes to date came, last week, the dynamiting and flinging into the River Moskva of the Simonov Monastery with its 400-ft. bell tower...
Corporation presidents do not usually conceive their companies' advertising campaigns, but no usual president is George Washington Hill of American Tobacco. The Reach for a Lucky idea came to him, he says, when he chanced to see a stout woman eating a sweet while next to her was a slender girl smoking a cigaret. During the height of the anti-sweet controversy he maintained that his campaign was really helping candy sales by focussing so many millions of minds on the subject of candy. Energetic, strong minded, Mr. Hill personally supervises many branches of his business, even to passing...
...years. Looking straight ahead, he hurried into the building, entered Judge Coleman's private office. The attorneys waited outside, hoping that this day would see an end to one of the greatest tangles of recent financial history. An hour and a half later the Fox answer came. Judge Coleman, alone, emerged from his office and said: "Mr. Fox says he will take his chance on a receivership. He will not agree to a voluntary trusteeship. He will not agree to retiring as an executive...