Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale is told to the effect that M. Briand, Premier of France once said that he did not know the difference between a stock and a bond because he had never possessed enough spare cash to purchase either. Of such stuff art popular heroes made. Last week Finance Minister Loucheur, known as "the richest man in France," save his drastic eight-billion-franc tax bill (TIME, Dec. 21) wrecked amid a storm of popular resentment Jean Frenchman made it exceedingly evident that he resented being told to pay crushing taxes by the millionaire-financier, M. Loucheur...
These literary jousters thrust and parry with no slight blows. Of Katherine Mansfield, Walpose observed with only thinly veiling suavity: "If you think her short stories to be 'as devoid of genuine imaginative passion as so many bond circulars' then I tell you (and here there is a personal assertion naked and unashamed) you don't know what genuine imaginative passion...
...third resignation from last season's football coaching staff was made known yesterday, with the announcement that T. J. Campbell '12, Assistant Graduate Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association, and Freshman football coach for the last three years, will resign his position on January 1, to enter the bond department of the Old Colony Trust Company. Coach Campbell's resignation closely follows those of R. T. Fisher '12, former head coach Major C. F. Daly '01, backfield coach, and M. J. Logan '15, chairman of the Graduate Football Advisory Committee...
...judges of the final debate of the James Barr Ames competition on January 22, were announced yesterday. These will be Hon. Robert von Moschzisher, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who will preside: Hon. Carroll T. Bond, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland; Hon. Joseph L. Bodine, Judge of the United States District Court of New Jersey...
...Straus & Co., "no loss to any investor for 43 years") and his day was the biggest: $1,020,193. He sprang, like the famed Gimbels, from Indiana, having been born in Ligonier just after the Civil War. Soon thereafter his father established in Chicago one of the greatest bond businesses in history. Now a gilded doorway struts into uptown Fifth Avenue, proclaiming the sweep of the Straus enterprises. It is in Manhattan that Simon William functions as President. He is known to have bought pearls of great price, to have contributed staunchly to this and that, but never, like members...