Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, University of Wisconsin's tanbark-floored livestock pavilion at Madison was the scene of a mass meeting which may or may not become retrospectively as important to U. S. history as the convention in Ripon. Into the pavilion swarmed some 5,000 invited guests, for whose benefit its interior had been deodorized, its gallery strung with U. S. and Wisconsin flags and with banners bearing the strange device of a cross within a circle, a new American shibboleth. Ushers were Wisconsin football players wearing red sweaters with huge white Ws. Originator, organizer and chief speaker...
...large crowd which had gathered at the wharf to witness the dumping over of Japanese and German goods appeared rather disappointed at the affair, which turned out to be entirely for the benefit of the news cameramen on hand. As no one had bothered to procure bona fide foreign goods, empty boxes were used...
Speaking on "The Federal System," Professor Frankfurter insisted that the Supreme Court was justified in its voiding of many state laws, since the foremost consideration must always be the benefit of the nation as a whole. However, the judicial control over state laws is often costly, for it "stops experimentation at its source and bars needed increase to the fund of social knowledge...
...meet people" was most often eted as the reason why non-participants wish they had gone out for an activity. Others said they regretted missing the physical benefit to be gained from sports, some felt they would have gained more self-assurance...
...Potter will shortly have another arrow in his quiver-a report soon to be released by the impartial SEC on Mr. Young's proposed simplification of the Alleghany empire. SEC records show that this plan, formulated by a group preponderantly interested in the common stock of Alleghany, would benefit the common stock at the expense of other Alleghany and Chesapeake securities, notably the Series A Alleghany preferred. The owners of the 667,539 shares of this issue (among them Donaldson Brown and Mr. & Mrs. Young) were asked to surrender the right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share...