Word: bond
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop Misbehaves (MetroGoldwyn-Mayer). If the Bishop of Broadminster had not been a reader of mystery stories he would never have guessed, on entering the deserted inn, that a robbery had just taken place there. He would not have been able to find Reginald Owen, Lillian Bond, and Dudley Digges tied in a closet and the stolen jewels in a pewter pot from which he removed them, leaving his visiting card...
...last week the factional split between Democratic friends & foes of St. Louis' Mayor Bernard F. ("Barney") Dickmann had resulted in nothing more than bad blood, hot words. Last week both sides got their dander up over a city-wide poll on a $7,500,000 bond issue to build a memorial to Thomas Jefferson beside the Mississippi. Following day City Market Master James O. Stubbs and State Representative Lawrence J. Fontana, both Dickmann men, marched with two friends into the office of City Recorder of Deeds John P. English, head of the anti-Dickmann faction...
Hallowed by at least four generations of profitable practice is the underwriting of big bond issues. Advantage to the borrowing corporation is the fact that it gets its money in a lump sum on a definite date irrespective of current market conditions. And the "spread" between the price the corporation receives for its bonds and the price the public pays is supposed to compensate the banker not only for his time & trouble but also for his risks...
Founded in 1910 by three Brothers Salomon, of whom two?Percy and Herbert?are still alive and at the head of the firm, Salomon Brothers & Hutzler has always been known largely as a dealer in Governments, municipals, high-grade corporate bonds, bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue...
...George Pfab. Few of them knew that versatile Mr. Pfab was a registered pharmacist, a onetime professional baseballer, an organizer of a Denver insurance company. They did know that Promoter Pfab's current venture was the high-sounding National Educators' Mutual Association, which sold ''endowment bonds" to teachers. The Pfab scheme was simple and forthright, if not generous. In return for $750 in cash, a teacher would receive a bond redeemable in ten years for $1,000 in cash plus five shares of stock in the Association. To lend prestige to his organization. Mr. Pfab also...