Word: billing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's 36,000 spectators gasped when flashy Halfback Andy Uram, who beat Nebraska almost singlehanded last year, missed a try for extra point after Minnesota scored a first-quarter touchdown. Minnesota made just two more fatal blunders. At the beginning of the second quarter Bill Matheny let the ball bounce out of his hands, Nebraska recovered it on Minnesota's 24-yd. line, plunged through for its first touchdown. At the .start of the fourth, after Minnesota had scored a field goal, Substitute Harold Van Every fumbled a punt, Nebraska's Bill Callahan , grabbed...
...Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission was perfectly plain. That stalwart Republican newspaper was echoing a widespread belief that Bill Douglas was a financial radical of as deep a dye as the New Deal has yet produced...
...Government's policeman of Wall Street, SEC has lately mellowed enough to be regarded with complacence, almost respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new job in Washington, all Wall Street wondered whether the Policeman's Billy would not soon be whacking out stringent new reforms...
...Bill. When the five-man SECommission was created in 1934 for the sole purpose of reforming Wall Street, worried speculators were mollified when one of their number-Joseph Patrick Kennedy-was made Chairman. A practical Irishman who was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy had no desire to affront Wall Street, but saw clearly that financial excesses must be curbed. Policeman Kennedy generally used the technique of catching his flies with honey. By the end of a year the job was largely organized. Virtually all listed securities had been registered, a simplified registration form for new security issues...
...year later he idealistically resigned because President Nicholas Murray Butler appointed a new dean of the Law School without first consulting the faculty. Shortly afterwards at a party in Pelham he met famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with the Department of Commerce in the same field, did so well that he achieved the topnotch berth of Sterling Professor...