Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decades ago was outspoken in his criticism of the attitude taken by college toward ball clubs who send players through school and then sign them up. A second peeve was intercollegiate restriction of undergraduates participating in semi-pro games during the summer and "maybe picking up a little spare cash...
...Never Know (by Cole Porter; produced by John Shubert). Originally boomed for a spring opening on Broadway. You Never Know has elected to cash in on road business till summer, not go to Manhattan till fall. With Cole Porter music, a P. G. Wodehouse plot, Clifton Webb's versatility, Lupe Velez' high spirits, Libby Holman's low register, You Never Know has sex & sophistication, somewhat less breath & bounce. Riding high are Velez and Webb as a manservant and lady's maid who doll up in their employers' togs. Libby Holman, featured in the billing...
Richard Whitney used his brother's $1,082,000 to return more than $900,000 in securities and cash belonging to the Stock Exchange Gratuity Fund, which he had had in his custody and had pledged for a personal loan. Had George Whitney known that there were several million dollars involved in other fraudulent deals? No, said Dick Whitney wearily, "So far as I know, he knew nothing about the rest until it all became public...
...roads. The Commission shook its head again. To the open dismay of Mr. Loree, the Pennsylvania was allowed to buy up the Lehigh and the Wabash. But it was 1928. stocks had gone up, and Mr. Loree had $20,000,000 profit. There was plenty of cash in Delaware & Hudson when Depression...
Thereupon, at the bottom of the market, Mr. Loree used some of the cash to buy a clear 10% of New York Central stock. It was easily the largest New York Central holding. Railroad men spoke of the new Leonor Loree. But last week, six years after the purchase. New York Central stock was worth half what he paid for it, and Mr. Loree was weary of the game...