Word: bolsterous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bolster the stock market, the Government (1 asked the big banks to buy stocks as they did in the 1929 crash, 2 reduced margin requirements, 3 offered to lend RFC funds to speculators, 4 called in several issues of Federal bonds, 5 urged insurance companies to invest more funds in stocks...
Seven months ago Army Chief Colonel Fulgencio Batista launched a social, economic "New Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment...
...publisher of Judge, Mr. Newman is proceeding with plans to bolster his drama, golf and advertising departments. But he is not yet the magazine's owner. Stock control remains with the printers, Kable Bros. Co. in Mount Morris, Ill., who took over the monthly last year on a lingering printing bill, passed title to Syndicator Bourjaily on his notes, pending sale of his comfortable United Feature stock holdings. When Kable Bros, returned Mr. Bourjaily's notes a month ago they asked Mr. Newman, then Judge's political writer, to step in as publisher; are negotiating with...
...approaching $200,000 through moneys set aside for the purpose by the Corporation and also through private contributions, the athletic fund stands side by side with the other important contributions of the Conant regime, namely the National scholarships and the University professorships. For as these funds are designed to bolster the professorial and undergraduate ranks to their utmost efficiency in the strictly academic branches of the University, so the endowment fund for athletics must be aimed at giving "the same basis of security" to athletics "as the instruction and research carried on by the faculties, museums, and research institutions." Though...
Walter Gieseking, beginning a transcontinental jaunt this week, will bolster a touring pianistic lineup which is topped by Rachmaninoff and includes able Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Brailowsky. Hulking, oddly demure of face. Pianist Gieseking will reach California in December. There he likes to relax by hunting butterflies. Son of a German physician and entomologist, Gieseking has one of the largest privately owned collections of butterflies in Europe. He has detected resemblances between California butterflies and European species, believes their forebears migrated by way of Asia and Alaska thousands of years ago. Once Gieseking found six caterpillars in Berkeley, took them...