Word: final
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...last week political forecasters had figured the 72nd House of Representatives (elected last Nov. 4 but not sitting, unless called earlier by the President, until Dec. 7, 1931) as being composed of 217 Democrats, 217 Republicans, and one Farmer-Laborite (TIME, Nov. 17). Last week, however, the final official count in the 10th Illinois district proved that not Democrat William Hesse, but Republican Carl Richard Chindblom had won the right to represent it. Thus the 72nd House last week stood as follows...
...facilitate booking, block and "spot," the producers created 32 Film Boards of Trade. To these boards they gave powers of credit-approval. Into the contracts with theatre-owners they inserted a provision that, should credit disputes arise, Credit Committees of these boards might arbitrate and their findings would be final. Also into the contract they put a clause requiring a theatre purchaser to assume the block bookings of his predecessor, or else make a cash "deposit" which might be as much as $1,000. Most cinema houses in the land have operated under such contracts ever since. On the strength...
This is the sole and final guarantee of the Young Plan Bonds, not guaranteed by the sellers, not guaranteed by the Bank for International Settlements, not guaranteed by the Allied Powers, but secured by the credit of the German Government and, if Germany chooses to default, resting ultimately for security upon a decision by Britain, France, Belgium, Italy and Japan as to whether or not they want to extort payment from Germany by force of arms...
...departed from. . . . You have all got, in so far as it is worthy to be carried into the future, a federation. . . . Leaving this chair, as I shall now proceed to do . . . so that this plenary conference may resolve into committees . . . I . . . hope . . . we shall be able in our final meetings to register an agreement which will send you back to India happy men, powerful...
...when the outbreak of the war closed the Stock Exchange. Back in Manhattan he became more and more deeply involved. Extravagant living made hopeless any effort to pay his debts. At the end of four years a court demand for an accounting of his trust caused the final break. Walking with his wife one day Chapin was accosted by an aged beggar woman. His wife shuddered and said: "Suppose I should come to that." Chapin, already planning suicide, feared what might befall his wife after he was gone. That night in their room in the Hotel Plaza, he shot...