Word: batch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boyles sign a batch of extradition papers...
Subject to suit for a faulty registration statement are all the directors or partners in the firm issuing the securities, all the experts who attest to its accuracy, all the underwriters who float the issue. Last week a batch of these gentlemen was ordered in New York supreme court to stand and deliver. Among five so ordered was Charles H. Sabin Jr., eminently respectable son of the late president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
Immediate reason for Harry Sinclair's pronunciamento was a small loss on Consolidated's operations in the first quarter (figures not made public). Since last year when the Government convicted a batch of the major oil companies under the Sherman Act, fear of further anti-trust suits has kept oilmen from attempting to do anything about relieving the market of distress gasoline stocks, which have reached an unwieldy total. Refiners now get an average of .7 cents a gallon less than they did last year. Crude production, however, has been kept within reasonable bounds by State proration laws...
French Cinemactress Annabella last month, the first test of whether matrimony will cut down his phenomenal feminine following. Slushed Louella ("Lolly") Parsons in her Hearst column last fortnight: "Frankly, and if I can judge by the batch of letters that have come to this desk recently, the youngsters are brokenhearted (at least for the moment) over the marriage of their hero, Ty Power. Mildred and Harold Lloyd told me their two daughters practically went into a decline when they heard...
...himself. While the Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...