Word: optional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lagrange, Ohio local option election, voters approved all liquor containing 6% or more alcohol, voted down 3.2 beer...
...Brush, now 66, sticks mostly around Salem, where he owns a historic house, fishes and dabbles in Republican politics. Publisher Moore, 50, an oldtime telegrapher and Hearst feature salesman, runs things at the Canton headquarters. Last week it was reported that: 1) Brush-Moore has taken a one-month option to buy the Curtis estate's holdings; 2) representatives of Ohio banks are inspecting the property to see about advancing the money; 3) the option expires January 16 and if it is not taken up, the Boks may let Publisher Martin stay on the job for a while...
First is interest at the moment because it is exhibited to call attention to the fact that the College Library has obtained an option for the purchase of it, is the polograph manuscript of a few hundred pages of the first version of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Joyce's first novel. the manuscript after being rejected by the twentieth publisher, was flung but the author into the fire, from which Mrs. Joyce, at the risk of burning her hands resumed...
When Montgomery Ward & Co. lost $8,712,023 in 1931, the directors started searching for someone who could pull the big mail-order house out of the red. For $100,000 annual salary and an option on 100,000 shares of stock at $11 (now selling at $50), they got Sewell Lee Avery. Chicago's No. 1 businessman and director of a dozen top-flight U. S. corporations, Mr. Avery won fame by nursing U. S. Gypsum Co. through Depression 1 with profits and dividends every year. Still more remarkable was his revival of Ward's. It netted...
This fall, freshmen entering St. John's had no option. For four years they will study in classes only the 100 classics, no modern thinkers, no modern science. They are required to learn passages from the classics by heart, take frequent quizzes. Only departure from the 100 books: students may listen to a college collection of symphonic phonograph records, learn to play the piano...