Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State's attorneys outlined their case against Gambler McManus. He had lost money to Rothstein at poker. Later he had taken a room at the Park Central Hotel, ordered whiskey, summoned Rothstein by telephone. Rothstein was seen staggering away from the room clutching his belly, was found at the servants' entrance of the hotel with a fatal bullet wound in his groin. He refused to name his assailant. An automatic pistol was picked up on the street under McManus' window, in the screen of which was torn a big hole...
...Comrade Litvinov's real reply to Statesman Stimson came not by note, but in a gala speech before the Soviet central executive committee, to which he invited the whole Moscow diplomatic corps. Such a chance to make game of Messrs. Hoover and Stimson, whose Gibson had humiliated him last spring, might not soon come again, and Comrade Litvinov made the most of it. Stomachs quaked with mirth as he told in droll fashion how Statesman Stimson had called on all the 53 Kellogg Treaty nations to second his note, and concluded amid guffaws: ''I have just received...
Last week, however, Blue Ridge and Shenandoah sponsors gave first aid to their injured. To Blue Ridge was sold a large block of Central States Electric at a price considerably below the market. Seller, number of shares and price were not announced. But Blue Ridge assets showed a November appreciation of $12,000,000 and Central States on the day of the sale closed at 28. One method of giving Blue Ridge a $12,000,000 profit would have been to sell it 1,000,000 shares of Central States at 16 (12 points below the market...
...Besides large holdings in Goldman Sachs Trading Corp., Central States Electric and Blue Ridge, Chief Shenandoah investments last fall included: American Tel. & Tel., Commercial Investment Trust, Consolidated Gas of Baltimore, Electric Investors (now merged with Electric Bond & Share), Hydro-Electric Securities Co., Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric , Pacific Lighting, North American...
Author McClinchey knows the Ojibways and likes them, lives part of every year on the island which is her novel's scene. Born in Sault Ste. Marie (the "Soo") she became a school teacher there, now teaches in the English Department of Central State Teachers College (summer session). Reserved, hard to get acquainted with, Author McClinchey feels natural in the woods, is an expert canoeist, and can handle a launch in a heavy sea. Joe Pete, her first novel, is the Christmas choice of the Book League of America...