Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year was certainly Winthrop Williams Aldrich who last week seemed about to succeed Albert Henry Wiggin as head of great Chase National (see p. 27) but his big achievements lay ahead of him. Scanning the realm of business the well-informed citizen would probably conclude that the biggest and boldest strides against the economic tide were those of Errett Lobban Cord who turned from highways to skyways in his restless effort to expand. The year proved that there was no such thing as a Depression-proof industry. Yet John Hartford's Great Atlantic & Pacific food stores, by holding...
...above the best bid placed by Mr. Kingsbury's Standard (TIME, Nov. 14). But last week Mr. Kingsbury, who relishes practical jokes, chortled a good last chortle. For the Richfield banking creditors' committee decided to accept the Standard offer and Mr. Sinclair, considered the boldest and most brilliant of operators in oildom, seemed outmaneuvered when he withdrew his company...
...staged in China's best known province, Shantung, once dominated by Germans (1897-1914), later by Japanese (1914-22) but always the everlasting pediment of Confucius' "Sacred Mountain," Taishan. What made Shantung's war authentic and hair-raising last week was the fact-that China's two best & boldest younger War Lords were pitching into each other with such fury that they were actually paying their troops. In China, where thousands of unpaid soldiers wander around with oilpaper umbrellas (their only tents), stealing handfuls of rice and waiting for their officers to be bribed, such energy as the two armies...
...charge leave much to be desired in their enforcement of the new rulings. Students who had not registered were admitted to the recent examination for Reading Knowledge of French. Registration blanks were carelessly distributed by the proctors to all who were without the proper identification, so that the boldest fraud could have been carried out with impunity...
...Atlanta penitentiary for conspiracy to defraud the Government. Lobbyist Taylor saw overseas service, has four battle clasps with a silver star citation. His greatest feat was putting through the first Bonus bill in 1924. He carries a cane, wears a stubbly blond mustache, has an eye that pierces the boldest Congressman. His salary is $6,000; he earns it and more. His boast is that one word from him to Legion headquarters and a deluge of hundreds of thousands of letters and telegrams will pour in on a balky Congress. He picks hostile Senators and Representatives for legionaries...