Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women astronomers were voted titled professorships by the Corporation, it was announced yesterday, thus making them the second and third women to receive Harvard appointments. The two are Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, who has been made William Cranch Bond Astronomer and Curator of Astronomical Photographs, and Dr. Cecilia Payne Gaposchkin, Phillips Astronomer...
...titled professorships are newly created to honor William Cranch Bond, who founded the Observatory, and Edward Bromfield Phillips, one of its early benefactors...
...Last week- though RFC was on record as willing to lend money on any "reasonable" railroad request and though it agreed to lend $8.000,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio after only a week's thought (TIME, Jan. 10)- it refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed...
...This week Erie managed to pay the interest due on the only one of the six bond issues which had but a 30-day period of grace. Also aroused over Erie's situation last week was Senator Burton Wheeler whose investigation of railroads was proceeding busily (see p. 53). While Jesse Jones wants to save all major railroads, Senator Wheeler favors letting weak roads, however important, "go through the wringer." Irked at the ICC's allowing RFC to aid H. & O. and its willingness to aid Erie, Senator Wheeler last week demanded that the ICC be reorganized because...
...even a miraculous medal, it appeared last week, could make Father Cox's contest look right to the U. S. Post Office Department. Day before the "Garden Stakes" was to close, Father Cox was arrested on charges of Pittsburgh's U. S. Attorney, released on $3,000 bond. He was accused of 1) using the mails to defraud; 2) conducting a lottery. Angry, red-faced Father Cox protested that he had talked with Postmaster General Farley before starting his contest, had been told to go ahead. Cried he: "They'll have to call out the troops first...