Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coach, the men looked ridiculously small. With such light men playing a hard schedule it was greatly feared that they could not stand the strain. But all went well. There was a steady development in the team and in the individuals; all were striving for perfection. A bond of sympathy arose between the players that is impossible to explain...
...Filed with President Gay last week, but not made public, was a report of a committee appointed to recommend some way to bond officers or insure market accounts against failure of a firm...
This action is only possible because Manhattan's vast Guaranty Trust Co. happens at the moment to have the balance of power in the situation. For years it has held all of Allegheny's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral for three bond issues. By the highly unusual terms of the indenture, Guaranty may exercise voting rights on this stock whenever the market value of the collateral falls below 150% of the bonds' value as determined by quarterly appraisals, unless Chesapeake's owners restore the collateral to the 150% figure within 30 days. When...
...Banker Isaac Norssex. Their sons share the family friendship. Lee Norssex goes into his father's bank. Junior Carrough, a Rhodes Scholar, goes to work on his father's newspaper, marries a shrewd New York newspaper woman, is elected to the State legislature. Occasionally he backs some bond legislation or kills a news story at Lee's suggestion...
...bank examiner discovers that the secret of Lee's success is heavy bond forgery. It is the end of his career, but only half of What People Said. The rest of the story unfolds the scope of Lee's crookedness, which runs like a sulphurous fuse from Banker Norssex to the Progressive Governor's Mansion. According to Junior and his wife, it sputters just as stinkingly in the homes of the suddenly "unbearably honest" Oklaradans, since they tolerate a society that breeds embezzlers and hypocrites, as it breeds the unemployed who snarl so ominously in Athena...