Word: affairing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Colonel Albanus Phillips, the company's big, bluff founder-president, let the public in on what has always been a family-&-friends affair. Small issues of common and preferred stocks were offered by the Manhattan firm of Lehman Brothers. Out of the total proceeds of $1,895,000, about $1,200,000 will be used to pay off notes and bank loans, presumably incurred to finance the 5? soups. Balance will go into expansion, working capital, possibly introduction of a new brand of canned dog food...
...Commencement Day speakers differ from the Class Day speakers in that the latter are elected by the Senior Class as an independent unit, while the Commencement Day speakers represent the University as a whole. The Class Day oration is primarily a class affair and so is elective...
Effective April 1, the change in market margins will cause little commotion, for the Roosevelt market continues to be largely a cash affair. Brokers loans, which were as high as $8,500,000,000 in 1929, are now about $1,000,000,000, having risen only $300,000,000 in the past year. The bank margins go into effect May 1, are not retroactive...
...honest, he explains, because Eskimos are not concerned with how far they go for their shopping. A small slip is likely to drive away a customer who came 400 miles by dog team, make him go 500 miles the next time to trade with someone else. No cash register affair, honesty in the Magids chain is a complicated matter involving as much as 15 years of credit. The Eskimos and, in Candle, the white residents bring in furs, gold, seal oil and reindeer meat to trade for canned food, clothes, hardware, needles, anchors, liquor. As near as he can figure...
Greatest of Federalist scandals was the killing, in a duel, of Alexander Hamilton by his bitter political opponent, Aaron Burr. The New York Chronicle of July 13, 1804 described the fatal affair with impressive simplicity: "They then proceeded to load the pistols. . . . The gentleman who was to give the word then explained to the parties the rules. . . . Both parties took aim and fired. . . . The fire of Col. Burr took effect...