Word: classing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...standards of contented Americans, he painted himself Red with his disquisitions against corporate employers as a class, his belief that the U. S. should be so far socialized as to liquidate big companies and substitute public ownership of their properties. Since there are 100,000 accredited and much more ambitious Reds in the Communist Party, U. S. A., this credo was no great distinction. What distinguished Witness Bridges was that he put his union ahead of their Party. He confessed that he had used and would continue to use Communist money, brains and brawn when they could help win something...
...caught the seven murderers driving the Major's car into Madrid. One hundred more suspects were rounded up from the neighborhood of the crime. The authorities stated that they had uncovered a nest of conspirators recruited "from the most sinister Marxist underworld" who called themselves "The Clan of Class Vengeance with Blood." Major Gabaldon's name was claimed to be merely one on a coded "death list" of Franco officers...
...best friends. At Stanislas, methodical Maurice further disciplined his mind by memorizing ten lines of prose at night (because it was harder than poetry) and reading a book of philosophy a week. After Stanislas he entered St. Cyr, French West Point, where in 1893 he finished first in a class...
...trustee replacement: tall, handsome Chicago Lawyer Benjamin Wham (rhymes with Tom), writing authority on receiverships and reorganization. His most pressing job (to be shared with C. & E. I.'s crack President C. T. O'Neal): to wind up details of the only Class I reorganization already approved by ICC and Federal courts...
...capitalization: 65% bonds, no preferred, 35% common stock. Its ratio of fixed charges to operating revenues in 1938: 12%; average ratio for all Class I roads...