Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revision of Cambridge city ordinances by the Harvard Law School forms another bond in the existing good will between the city and the University," declared R. M. Russell '14, Mayor of Cambridge, in a statement issued last night. "This service rendered by the law school will save the taxpayers of Cambridge about $20,000 this year. The revision of the city statutes is a reform which has been needed for twenty years. Many of the ordinances are not only contradictory among themselves, but are at variance with state statutes. New ordinances have been added each year until the situation...
...Veterans felt that any War Memorial should be specially useful to them. There were years of dispute until Richard Montgomery Tobin, onetime (1923-29) Minister to The Netherlands took command. As a veteran and a music- enthusiast he was able to reconcile both factions. A $4.000,000 bond issue was floated, one-third of which the city subscribed. Architect Arthur Brown Jr. with Albert Lansburgh collaborating designed twin buildings (one for veterans' organizations, one for opera). They are dignified granite and terra cotta structures which harmonize with the new City Hall at the centre of the civic group which...
Just as Mr. Stuart expected, the indictment charged him and five of his executives with using the mail to defraud. The indictment was issued in Chicago, home office of Halsey, Stuart & Co. Banker Stuart and his two indicted Chicago partners promptly surrendered and posted a bond guaranteeing their appearance in Milwaukee where the trial will be held...
Straus Out. The proud and business-fetching boast of the big realty investment firm of S. W. Straus & Co. was "44 Years Without Loss to any Investor." But last year many a Straus-sponsored bond defaulted, huge losses piled upon Straus investors. Last week, charged with selling bonds on properties whose taxes were in default and first mortgages that were not first mortgages, the company was thrown into receivership. Special law applied was New York's Martin Act which defines fraud as "all deceitful practices contrary to the plain rules of common honesty." Said Justice Alfred V. Norton...
...constructed for employes. Long-Bell became the world's largest lumber company. Then, two years after the Northwest operation was begun, said Founder Long, "the lumber business just dried up." Dividends were passed in the autumn of 1927, earnings shriveled and last spring Long-Bell failed to pay its bond interest...