Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brandeis' early battles in Boston, one central conviction of his that became increasingly clear was what his appraising critics have since defined as an almost pathological "fear of bigness." Actually Brandeis' fear of bigness is a rooted but reasonable distrust in human infallibility. Brandeis objected to financial pyramids, huge monopolies and interminable leases not so much because of size as because he felt and feels that human administrative capacity has grave limits. In 1915, appearing before a Congressional committee with a new bill aimed at monopoly, he quoted a German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees...
Died. Robert Potter Hill, 63, U. S. Representative from Oklahoma, onetime (1913-15) Representative from Illinois; of a heart attack; in Oklahoma City. Congressman Hill had been scheduled to speak at last week's meeting of the East Central Educational Association at Ada, Okla. First person who agreed to deliver the address in question was Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who died last July. Next Amelia Earhart was asked, accepted, flew off into the Pacific Ocean. After her President Henry Hardin Cherry of Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green, Ky., accepted, and died. Dr. Melvin Everett Haggerty...
...that the insiders in Wall Street brought on the present situation in an attempt to embarrass the Roosevelt administration." *Fast on its feet for once, the New York Stock Exchange month ago began a study of daily average short sales in A.T. & T., General Motors, S.O.N.J., New York Central. U. S. steel, last week announced that so far they were only 22.7% of the total...
...that of U. S. Steel's President William A. Irvin, now a year from the retirement age of 65. To succeed him, Big Steel's directors last week picked 47-year-old Benjamin F. Fairless, who began as a schoolmaster, tried his hand at railroad engineering, joined Central Steel Co. in 1913, eventually became vice president. Through various mergers, Ben Fairless rose to be executive vice president of Republic Steel, left that post to become president of Myron Taylor's Amalgamated Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corp. in 1935. Following him in this berth will be 56-year...
...late statistics are supposed to give traders an inkling of the market's trend. The 16 FLASH issues: Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe; American Telephone & Telegraph; Anaconda Copper; Chrysler; Sears, Roebuck; Great Northern (preferred); Consolidated Edison; Republic Steel; General Motors; Standard Oil of N. J.; General Electric; N. Y. Central; Electric Power & Light; U. S. Steel; U. S. Rubber; Douglas Aircraft...