Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tobacco Annuity. In 1923 Tobacco Products was a $70,000,000 Virginia corporation with 20 well-advertised brand names, including Herbert Tareyton, Johnnie Walker, Melachrino. Today Tobacco Products is one of the so-called Morrow-interests, and its principal asset is a wad of stock in United Cigar Stores, which is in the hands of the courts...
...should be remembered that formulas and agreements in principle are as old as modern diplomacy. Throughout the nineteenth century crises of just this sort were smoothed over by just this sort of nobly ambiguous declaration. A common meeting ground for the plentipotentiaries in League headquarters is a valuable physical asset. Nevertheless, there remains doubt as to whether a radically new method of procedure has been introduced...
...public office in the future battle these effectively? Some say they will use these means only as a way to gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted form of government that makes such tactics a necessary asset to the aspiring leader. And how morally strong, moreover, must the person be who never allows the means to taint his ends and how closely associated the two usually become. In this past election, of course, it must be remembered there were other factors which influenced the results...
Edward R. Sargent '36, who won the Intercollegiate Championship last year will prove a valuable asset to the team's strength. Another returning veteran in whom Coach Cowles places a good deal of confidence is Germain G. Glidden '36, a team-mate of Sargent...
...alone cost $575,226.07. Inside was placed a profusion of Austrian hand-tufted carpets, tapestries, urns, silverware, china, pictures, bric-a-brac, chandeliers, for which Mr. Long paid $207,763.57. There were Oriental rugs in every bathroom. House and contents were listed on his personal ledger as an $11 asset. Last week more than 1,000 Kansas Citizens gratified a long-cherished ambition to see the inside of the Long house. Up for auction was everything Lumberman Long possessed except the sets of Dickens, Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read...