Word: bane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bane of all honest city editors and newshawks are "Business Office Musts." These are free stories about advertisers, which in many a paper take up so much space that legitimate news has to be whittled down or omitted entirely...
...pointed out that privately endowed institutions should break down "sectionalism, the bane of any country" by admitting students from all parts of the country. As a necessary corollary he reiterated his belief once again that colleges should award "a considerable number of scholarships with large stipends" to "the boy or girl with great ability but no money...
Director of Registration Baldwin Bane came from the Federal Trade Commission, is known as a protegé of Senator Carter Glass. He it is who issues SEC's ''stop-orders," which amount to injunctions shuting off the output of new securities. Since the Securities Act of 1933 was signed, he has passed 1,124 issues, stopped...
...making it easy for the honest. Bucket shops, boiler rooms and the sell-&-switch racket are for the first time up against toothy Federal laws. But the downright crook is not so annoying as the shady dealer operating on the frontiers of legality. Last week Director of Registration Bane cracked down with a stop-order suspending sale of stock in a Tulsa concern called Wee Investors Royalty Co. Wee Investors proposed to sell its stock on a chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane's phraseology the proposition appeared to be "misleading." And last week Counsel...
...elaborate regulations. Promotions were rapid and salaries high but Allied got a reputation for killing its executives. To find the right man for a key job, Mr. Weber would make and break half a dozen officers in quick succession. Corporate camaraderie was discouraged-thereby discouraging corporate politics, a bane of big business. Allied officials did not even lunch together. But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear. Some employes hesitated to take vacations lest other men would have their jobs...