Word: austin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winners of the verdict were four purchasers of stock of Austin Silver Mining Co., of which Socialite Sabin was once president. They bought 6,000 shares of Austin Silver in March 1937. It was between $2.50 and $3. By the end of the year it had dropped to a dismal 871/2?. But while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because...
...nonetheless a verdict for $10,000 was awarded in compensation for the losses. Sounding the stand-and-deliver order was Justice Edgar J. Lauer, whose wife is currently serving a three-month jail sentence for smuggling (TIME, May 15), who himself resigned from the bench (effective June 15). Meanwhile, Austin Silver, having settled its difficulties with SEC, has a new set of officers, is being offered at 181/2? a share...
...first act was to head for Austin to try to beat a bill, which he had previously supported, to place San Antonio employes under civil service...
Actually "Dick" Vidmer, Herald Tribune sportswriter, had reported how 34 U. S. sportsmen* signed a statement: "Moral Re-Armament is a battle for peace where sportsmen must take the lead. . . . Sportsmen morally rearmed can unite the world." They signed at the urging of handsome Henry Wilfred ("Bunny") Austin, British Davis Cup tennis player, now Dr. Buchmairs chief MRA-sayer. Sportswriter Vidmer thereupon remarked that, before preaching such doctrines. U. S. sportsmen might well clean up U. S. sport. He concluded: "Moral rearmament, as it is described by the disciples who have brought it to these shores, is magnificent and magnetic...
...Authors. Declining to reveal which is which in their literary partnership, Charles Austin Beard claims that the secret of his congenial collaboration with his charming wife, Mary, is "division of argument." But Charles Beard is the solid head historian of the history-writing Beard family (Daughter Miriam: A History of the Business Man; Son William: Government and Technology; Son-in-Law Alfred Vagts: The History of Militarism...