Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undoubtedly, that's a tremendous asset to any university president who's after benefactors. If they can't see beyond the warm, heathery shade of your tweeds, they won't be able to worry much about what's going to happen to their money. It's a great improvement over the old days, and we'll be expecting "Fair Harvard" on the Hit Parade pretty soon...
...from the four ships, under Constantine Badigin. who had been elected captain of the Sedov. The new icebreaker J. Stalin tried to reach the Sedov, but another winter set in and she had to give up. At this point Joseph Stalin decided to turn the Arctic fiasco into an asset. He purged the Glavnoye Upravlenya, Severnovo Morskovo Puty (Central Administration of the Northern Sea Route-Glavsevmorput' for short), kicked its chief. Professor Otto Schmidt, upstairs into a vice-presidency of the Academy of Sciences, named 46-year-old Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from...
Then out of nowhere came Sam White! There never was any question about Sam's not trying to do his best, but suddenly about two weeks ago he found that he could do no better. His all-around play improved tremendously, and his height made him a great asset to the small team. Other men are going to turn in inspired performances for the Crimson this year. Bob James and Frannie Simpson, two of the most conscientious workers on the squad, are waiting for their opportunity; substitute Chet Legg played a major part in the Columbia upset victory; and there...
...Council. Taking no criminal or marital cases, the Taft firm steadily built up a solid corporate practice locally (Gruen Watch, Globe-Wernicke, Cincinnati Milling Machine, etc.). Its business base was the management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times-Star. To Bob and Charley, Uncle Charles left 1,000 shares each, appraised at $250,000; 2,000 shares to peppery, horse-loving Cousin Hulbert Taft, who runs the paper and is one of Bob's closest chums; and all the rest to daughters...
...Anglo California also gave up its last connection with the name of Fleishhacker. Herbert's solid, solemn brother Mortimer, who resigned as president and board chairman last year, last week retired from the bank's directorate. The name of Fleishhacker appeared no longer to be a banking asset...