Word: bond
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Legislature, hurriedly pushed through some abject vote-getting bills-repeal of the sales tax that has loaded Louisiana pockets with brass and aluminum tokens, repeal of the tax on gasoline used by boats, which has made Louisiana fishermen grind their teeth, statutory opening of the books of the State bond and tax board for examination...
...York Supreme Court Justice Joseph Force Crater, who disappeared Aug. 6, 1930 and was declared legally dead last June, collected $20,561 from insurance policies on the life of her first husband, after: 1) the insurance companies conceded Judge Crater's death; 2) she posted a $23,500 bond to indemnify the companies if the judge should reappear...
...week, is George Tidd, who runs the $523,000,000 American Gas and Electric system, in nine States from the Tennessee Valley to Lake Michigan. American Gas was put together in 1907 by Harrison Williams of North American Co., and Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, now retired, formerly head of Electric Bond & Share, which owns 19% of American Gas common. Tidd is an operating man who once indicated to a Washington investigation that a great deal of the finance in his own power system was over his head. Nevertheless, in 1933 he showed what he thought of a pre-crash...
...executive. Nowadays he sits in No. 30 Church Street, Manhattan (home, too, of the New York Railroad Club, where U. S. heavy industrialists lunch in droves), smokes cigarets incessantly, machine-guns his words a few sentences at a time, knows that even if his multi-regioned top company, Electric Bond & Share, could eventually be forced by SEC to liquidate, American Gas's exceptional finance, low costs, chain hookups, should keep it intact in definitely...
...grandson of his namesake who came to the U. S. in 1837 as the Rothschilds' first American representative, was elected director and vice president of Bonbright & Co., investment banking firm. Since graduating from Harvard in 1931, Belmont passed through a Bonbright ap prenticeship in the firm's bond buying department...