Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuzzy-eyed freshmen of a Wall Street bond school, the bankers knew exactly what they were doing. Each had paid $20 for his five-day course in practical banking. Tried out experimentally in 1937 by North Carolina's hefty, progressive bank commissioner, Gurney Pope Hood, the course was so successful that some 20 other States adopted it. During its four-year run the school has taught bankers from some four-fifths of North Carolina's 228 banks (resources...
...politically impossible, an amateur whose rankness you could smell. Nevertheless, they went to see him, and get a nearer sniff. His small 16th floor suite at a corridor's end in the Benjamin Franklin hotel became a crazy-house, a stifling welter of political amateurs and well-wishers (bond salesmen, debutantes, business bigwigs), gawkers (clubwomen, tourists, thrill-collectors), and disgusted professionals, indignant at their offhand treatment by people who had never heard of them and who even now regarded politicos as casual, unimportant, irrelevant vermin...
...carried the banner 'Democracy,' the other 'Occidental Civilization.' Fundamentally there was no conflict between the two slogans, since neither meant anything concrete. Each one, however, served as the common bond between a number of discordant faiths polarized by the two extreme sects, Communists and Fascists, which it turned out later cared nothing respectively for either democracy or occidental civilization. ... In an emotional situation of this sort, propaganda becomes childishly easy...
...accordance with J. P. Morgan & Co.'s changeover last February from a private bank to a public bank and trust company (TiME, Feb. 26), Junius Spencer Morgan, J. P. the younger's elder son, sold the family's last Exchange seat (purchased about 1906) to Bond Broker Saul Schwamm...
...liable to lose trade in Scandinavia, the Balkans, parts of the Empire as well. With her exports reduced, thanks to labor shortage and lack of shipping, she must liquidate foreign securities to buy imports. She will lose her financial supremacy to the U. S. and thus her strongest bond with the Dominions. The problem of feeding the island population during the war will be slight compared with the difficulty once the war is over...