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Word: coalman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late 1920s Founder Arthur J. Morris of the Morris Plan banks and four other members of a syndicate bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance Corp. stock from the late Pennsylvania Coalman John Markle. The price was $95 a share. It happened that Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105. Eventually the syndicate including Arthur Morris and four other directors of Industrial, sold the shares to the corporation, at a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nothing Wrongful | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

Died. George Fulmer Getz, 72, Chicago coalman, onetime (1933-36) treasurer of the Republican National Committee; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...late 19205 a syndicate whose members included Founder Arthur J. Morris and four other directors bought 14,550 shares of Industrial Finance debenture stock held by the late Coalman John Markle. The syndicate paid $95 per share. It happened that the corporation was under obligation to repurchase that stock at $105 per share. So the syndicate sold the 14,550 shares to the corporation, making a profit of $145,500 on the transaction. The suit was to recover this sum for the stockholders with interest and dividends which brought total damages to $400,000. Held Justice Pecora...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Pecora on Directors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

...Carter of Carter Coal Co. with mines in the Virginias. Another weapon was Charles Irvin Dawson, who before he resigned as a Federal judge in Kentucky had declared the NRA coal code unconstitutional. Last week his clients were 19 Kentucky coal companies whose case was joined with that of Coalman Carter. Other weapons were arguments used in overthrowing NRA, that prices, wages, hours, etc.''were not subject to Federal tinkering under the power of Congress "to regulate commerce . . . among the several states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Posthumous Egg | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...lions, two tigers, two cougars, an Indian leopard, a male buffalo, a rhinoceros named Toodles, an elephant named Nancy, an agouti, a coati-mundi and some 300 other kinds of beast, bird & fish used to be on view in Coalman George Fulmer Getz's zoo at Holland, Mich. This week a larger public may look at them when with grunts, growls, roars, squeals and speeches the Chicago Zoological Society opens its new, 133-acre zoo at Brookfield, 15 mi. southwest of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: New Zoo | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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