Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, the professors organized, and virtually owned the students. At Bologna, however, the students organized, and virtually owned the professors. Each new professor was forced to put up a bond--in cash--when appointed, and he was appointed by the students' chief official, himself a student. At the end of the year the professor received his money back, with deductions for bad behavior--such, for instance, as coming late to class, or skipping a chapter, or failing to finish the course within the time agreed upon. Throughout the year, he was required to sweep the classroom and keep its windows...
...Ponzi is now in Boston State Prison. In 1920 he was sent to a Federal penitentiary for using the mails to defraud. In 1924 his term was over, but he was convicted on a State charge sentenced for seven to nine years. In the interim he was released on bond and hurried to Florida where he tried a lame scheme. He got in trouble with Florida's courts, attempted to flee the U. S., was caught in New Orleans, returned to Massachusetts. In October 1931, he will be eligible for parole, is not preparing to fight. In Boston Federal...
...favored moderate Federal regulation, opposed public operation. Democrat Marcel Garsaud was opposed by Alfred Danziger, an agent of Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when he justified a 10¢ per kilowatt hour rate at Casper on the ground that the public was willing to pay for "adequate service...
Much uneasiness was caused last week by the continued decline in the bond market. Second-grade bonds have dropped in alarming fashion; the best bonds have slumped at an angle almost unprecedented. One reason given is the need of many an institution to have much cash on hand. Another is that new bond financing for eleven months this year was $5,300,000,000 against $3,671,000,000 all last year, that bond digestion is clogged. Said the venerable, owl-wise Commercial & Financial Chronicle last week: "It is bad enough to see stock prices going all tx> smash...
Purpose of the receiverships is really to impound the stock of the Appeals now held by Nashville Trust Co. That stock has been pledged against a $1,500,000 bond issue of Southern Publishers which Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. bought...