Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Central American government which came into existence through a coup d'etat. Only obvious way out of the difficulty was for President Chacon to recover from his hemorrhage, but Acting President Orellana intimated last week that even in this unlikely case he was not at all sure that he felt like resigning...
More than one potent California banker bridled angrily, sure that he was the "certain competitor" accused by Mr. Giannini. But well-informed observers paid little heed. Mr. Giannini, 60 and retired, is no longer official spokesman for Transamerica, having been succeeded a year ago by astute Elisha Walker of New York. And while it is true that there has been a large professional short interest in Transamerica stock, Wall Street has not been conscious of any great golden California bear in its menagerie. Embarrassing as it might have been for Transamerica's active management, the Giannini outburst - made...
...divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last you see of him he is flying furiously westward to prevent Irma Schmultz from sailing to the Philippines. As you close the book you are sure that he will get her, sure that he will be almost unanimously reelected. The Author. Janet Fairbank's father (Benjamin Ayer) was a big man in Chicago's yesterday; her sister is Novelist Margaret Ayer Barnes (TIME, July 7). Herself a big and breezy woman, she has not been...
...Stalina and the maddest coal mines imaginable. . . . Working conditions so arduous that the labor turnover exceeds 100% per year. . . . Miners on all fours, crawling down (sometimes sideways like crabs) to reach their work a mile and a half underground. . . . Red taskmasters sure that to cut passages high enough for the miners to stand erect would cost too much...
Wesley was small, dictatorial, sure of himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...