Word: stops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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REPORT CURRENT IN OKLAHOMA MELLON SLEEPS IN TREASURY VAULT WHEN IN UNITED STATES STOP PLEASE VERIFY...
...HAPPENS IN CONNECTION WITH MY CONTROVERSY WITH THE KANSAS CITY STAR AND I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE FAIR TREATMENT I HAVE RECEIVED IN EVERY WAY EXCEPT THAT YOUR FOOTNOTE IN THE JULY TWENTY-SEVEN EDITION IS APT TO GIVE THE READER A WRONG INTERPRETATION OF THE FACTS STOP HE WOULD READ IT AS MEANING THAT THE STATEMENTS OF OUR COMPANIES ARE NOT AUDITED STOP I THINK YOU MEANT TO SAY THAT OUR STATEMENTS ARE NOT AUDITED BY OUTSIDE AUDITORS AT THE TIME THEY ARE CURRENTLY ISSUED STOP . . . FEW COMPANIES HAVE THEIR STATEMENTS AUDITED BY OUTSIDE PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS MORE...
...hours last week it looked almost as if his administration's policy, laid down in 1929, to maintain existing pay schedules had been reversed. Representative Condon of Rhode Island, scene of recent textile strikes, wrote Secretary of Commerce Lamont complaining of wage reductions, asking for Federal support to stop them. Mr. Lamont replied: "As the period of depression lengthens, many corporations find themselves in extremely difficult positions. Many of them have already cut dividends and salaries. Some of them are faced with the prospect of closing down altogether and thus creating more unemployment or, alternatively, seeking temporary wage reductions...
...valet Ishi pickle herring and serve tea from a samovar. The day after the Tsar abdicated, he sent a cable: NICHOLAS ROMANOFF: WHEN I WAS A POOR BOY IN KIEV SOME OF YOUR POLICEMEN WERE NOT NICE TO ME. . . . CAN GIVE YOU FINE POSITION ACTING IN PICTURES STOP SALARY NO OBJECT. . . . SELZNICK. Zukor sent a friend, who was said to have been paid $50,000, from Chicago to see Selznick. Selznick and Zukor, two of the biggest producers in the industry, started Select Pictures Corp. together...
...dozen scientists, some in their underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...