Word: 30th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wall Street must have its wisecrack. "High finance" was the weak but prevalent pun heard last week when Fiduciary Trust Co. opened for business on the 30th floor of No. i Wall St. But other bankers pre- pared to watch Fiduciary's course with deep interest. Distinctly it is a new departure in banking. The idea for Fiduciary Trust was conceived by the law firm of Root, Clark & Buckner and the investment counsel firm of Scudder, Stevens & Clark which, formed in 1919 as the first purely professional investment adviser, now spends $400,000 a year in research, handles some...
...Burgess with him. When Professor Stratton became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923), Dr. Burgess became Bureau Chief. Just a month ago President Stratton, for a year now Tech's board chairman, was back in Washington, guest of his onetime subordinate at the bureau's 30th anniversary celebration and the unveiling of a Stratton portrait in the old institution...
...high wind over heavy seas, were not again seen or heard from. A few optimists clung to the ephemeral hope that the flyers were alive on one of the outlying Azores. But cold reason labelled the Tradewind the seventeenth transatlantic plane to be lost since 1927; the pilots the 30th and 31st; Mrs. Hart the fourth woman...
...anxious Britons, expecting birth news from day to day, the child seemed long in coming. The Duchess of York's own 30th birthday, heralded by soothsayers as the probable moment, dawned uneventfully. Highly embarrassed, perspiring profusely, little John Robert Clynes who began life humbly in a workingman's cottage and is now Home Secretary of His Majesty's government, delayed his arrival at the castle almost as long as possible. Tradition demanded his presence in the anteroom of the Duchess' bedchamber at the moment of delivery to protect the public's rights, to see and certify that the baby, possible...
...30th anniversary of King Vittorio Emanuele's reign, celebrated last week at Rome, and Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's 47th birthday, enthusiastically observed at Milan, was chosen by the Italian Cabinet as the day on which to announce its appropriation toward rebuilding the houses demolished fortnight ago when temblors cracked Italy's ankle from Naples to Bari (TIME, Aug. 4). One hundred million lire ($5,260,000) was set aside for the erection of several hundred "anti-seismic"* houses in the devastated region, for destroying uninhabitable dwellings, for shoring up those which are salvageable...