Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Arithmetic for Stockholders. Mr. Wiggin, good-natured, sure that he had not been overpaid, lost some of his good humor when questioned about Chase Securities Corp. Mr. Pecora made him admit figure by figure that the company (which sold $6,000,000,000 of securities, 5.68% of which went into default) had to reserve for losses 77% ($120,000,000) of its aggregate capital and earnings since 1917. To Mr. Pecora's charge that the company's reports to stockholders* had hidden losses Mr. Wiggin entered denials. Mr. Pecora gave him the company's reports...
...particular department of government, but it will scarcely be denied that a primary object essentially within the orbit of the judicial department is that courts properly function in the administration of justice . . . and in the light of judicial history they cannot long continue to do this without power to admit and disbar attorneys who from time immemorial have in a peculiar sense been regarded as their officers...
...your pleasant review of my latest novel you make the statement that "In real life people never talk so wordily to the point." Are you sure of that? It is a modern and popular dictum, but I doubt it. I would like to make a dictaphone test. I admit that in crowded and busy places, New York, and so on, conversation is mostly reduced to a minimum, but even there it can be found, and, oddly enough, particularly among those whose novels are distinguished for shotgun brevity between characters. Investigate that point. As to the rest of the country, where...
...College was founded by the Hicksite branch of the Quakers. Both colleges have remained small, progressive, Quakerish in independence but non-parochial. Less than half of Haverford's 44 professors and less than 17% of its 300 students are Quakers. In 1931 the Haverford charter was amended to admit non-Quakers to the Board of Managers. But Haverford still conducts Fifth-Day Meetings on Thursdays and last week's celebration included a quiet Sunday Friends' Meeting...
...should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable menace. CASTOR...