Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complete account of the company's affairs. If any "material'' fact is misstated or if any "material" fact is omitted, each director is liable for the loss incurred by a buyer of the security. Few lawyers were prepared to advise businessmen last Week that they could afford to take any such chance...
...house of cards collapsed. During and after the War plump Horatio helped the British Government against its own wishes and his own paper by organizing a series of lotteries, entitled Victory Club, Victory Bond Club, Thrift Bond Prize Club, Victory Derby Sweepstake, etc., etc. Patriots who could not afford a British bond bought tickets. Horatio Bottomley bought bonds and distributed huge prizes to the lucky winners...
...market price (and similar amounts with offerings of Alleghany Corp. and other shares)? A. No. The firm had no such intent, regarded the shares as speculative (not the type of securities it would offer to the public); therefore disposed of them to people who knew the risk and could afford to take it; probably would not have done so except at cost. Q. Was not the offer of such shares at wholesale prices a kind of bribe to get favors from public and corporate officials? A. No. The shares were only offered to clients and friends, including retired public...
...getting it. Most women are supported by some man until they are married, and supported by some other man afterward. When they cut loose from the husband, why not let them go back to their families? Or get out, if their poor old fathers can no longer afford to keep them in the manner to which they are accustomed, and scratch for a living? There is not one scintilla of reasonable argument dictating that a divorced man should support some woman he is no longer living with. Only sentimentality and maudlin legal precedent are responsible for this unnatural, stupid state...
...feeble-looking man with close-cropped grey hair shuffled up to the proprietor of the Old Orchard Inn at Roslyn, L. I., one evening last week. "I want an inexpensive room." he said. "I can't afford to pay very much...