Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what one might call "well off"-a director of a half dozen corporations including those which make Shredded Wheat Biscuits and run the Santa Fe trains, the owner of a comfortable supply of bond coupons, the husband of a charming wife, and a thrice elected member of the U. S. House of Representatives. In the House there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like...
...department was unable to extinguish the blaze until several barns and outbuildings had flamed upward to the tune of 200,000 francs. I, who have been ten times Premier of France, said not long ago: 'I do not claim to know the difference between a stock and a bond, since I have never owned a sample of either.' My Socialist constituents did not then stop to think that I might have invested, instead, in real estate...
There will begin on October 18 a series of six open nights at the University Observatory, held under the auspices of the Bond Astronomical Club. The program will include a short, non-technical talk followed by telescopic observations, weather permitting. Members of the club will explain exhibits which demonstrate the work of the observatory...
Freshman Coaches: Rufus Bond '19, C. H. Bradford '26, David Campbell '24, and E. L. Casey...
...Government traced C00043203, a $10,000 Liberty bond, to the 1922 private brokerage account of onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller. It was further shown that this bond was one of a $441,000 block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...