Word: began
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Entrepreneur Myers began promoting a deal: let little TVA buy Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a nationwide syndicate to market the bonds. The first Nebraska utility man Mr. Myers interviewed practically threw him out. But back in Wall Street the holding-company financiers who run utilitydom were seeing the handwriting on the wall in Wendell Willkie's losing fight against big TVA. A few judicious telephone calls soon...
When Coster heard about this he opened campaign headquarters in Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt, hired a lawyer, and began whispering in directors' ears, "setting one man against another." Everything was set for open battle when Mr. Catchings saw that a majority of directors sided with Coster, led by representatives of the banking interests that had helped him finance the company. Rather than start a public row to the detriment of the company's reputation, Mr. Catchings issued a report and resigned. Said he last week: "I told them, but they wouldn't accept it, that...
...great imperialist, Takashi Masuda saw the imperialism he had fostered grow to ungovernable dimensions. After a lifetime in international trade he began to fear Japanese isolation. He experimented endlessly with cheap native foods in an effort to make his country agriculturally self-sufficient, wrote pamphlets to show farmers how to reduce their costs, enthused over a charcoal-burning automobile which he thought would make Japan independent of foreign fuel...
Mildred Walker says she began writing at the age of seven. From the time she was 12, she was periodically embarrassed by the village postmaster in Grafton, Vt., where her family spent its summers. Mildred's rejected manuscripts were too bulky to fit the family postbox, and the postmaster handed the packages out to her personally...
...this very weekend at New Haven, says the Associated Press, "students began pushing parked cars into the streets and at one point a box used to store sand was overturned, and a free-for-all sand fight started." Now, in their immaturity, these Elis were striking at the very root of two hallowed institutions: the WPA sand pile project and the old New Haven custom of parking on the side-walk...