Word: kept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gretna. La., Cadet Cagle, aged 23, had married Marion Munford Haile. He returned to West Point to sign certificates that he had not violated the Academy's strict rule against cadets marrying. Mrs. Cagle taught school in Louisiana as Miss Haile, kept out of sight, never saw her husband drill or play football...
Rain and lack of vitalizing issues kept Oregon's primary vote last week to the lowest on record. Results: Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary renominated, to oppose onetime Democratic Congressman Elton Watkins; George Joseph. Republican State Senator, apparently nominated for Governor, to oppose (apparently) Democrat Edward F. Bailey...
Germany, tardy, kept the B. I. S. waiting nearly all week for her "certificate of indebtedness," the stupendous I. O. U. which will be held as security for the Young Plan bonds of which $300,000,000 worth will be issued next month. The B. I. S. prepared last week to issue this week $68,000,000 of its $100,000,000 capital stock. In Manhattan the House of Morgan will handle the U. S. share of this allotment, already in enormous demand...
Golden silence is a coin few men can keep, more especially if they have been spendthrift talkers, boasters, threateners -as Signer Benito Mussolini used to be. Three years ago Il Duce resolved to become reticent, publicly announced his resolution (TIME, June 6, 1927), and has kept it with superhuman willpower. No longer does the Peace of Europe tremble every fortnight at his roar. Last week, however, the Dictator permitted himself a sort of spree, dashed at breakneck speed around Tuscany in his bellowing Alpha Romeo, fought a fencing match at Lucca, kissed on both cheeks his adversary General Romeo Lunghera...
...bound to come is a foregone conclusion; the time element is the important one now. And when it does come and prices start up again, the public will jump in just as it did last time, though it is to be hoped that the movement can be kept within the bounds of reason when the next bull market really gets under way. The greatest danger lies in the lack of judgment on the part of the average speculator and investor. Mob psychology invariably rules the day, and the elemental principle that stocks are a much more attractive buy when...