Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when her application was denied, Mrs. Kaufman telegraphed Father Divine: "Newport is seething in corruption and politics. I own a castle. Kindly advise me when you can come." Mrs. Kaufman announced that she would sell or give The Castle to Father Divine unless her neighbors bought it for $40,000. She reduced her price to $10,000. Still no takers. In great agitation, threatening to "spend $100,000 to rip this city apart," Mrs. Kaufman took to her bed with a nervous collapse...
...angels" Father Divine exclaimed: "The attempt of a society lady in Newport to recognize the majesty of God has resulted in unpremeditated consternation growing out of prejudice and bigotry. I come to put a curb to such...
...Federal Reserve economic troubleshooter, Currie quickly won recognition inside political brain-picking circles. But not till May 1939 (via his becharted Temporary National Economic Committee testimony on capital investment) did nation-wide public recognition come for his analytical prowess...
...handsome, strapping Oscar Cintas, a long Cuban cigarette between his slim fingers, a sleekly rolled umbrella between his well-tailored knees. Across the table, and nervous under Oscar Cintas' blazing black eyes, sat gnome-like Charlie Hardy. Jampacked in the room were some 125 A. C. F. stockholders, come to the annual meeting to see Hardy and Cintas, no longer friends, have...
...Morgan & Co.) and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have held themselves coolly aloof from competition for security issues. Their position is that terms reached in direct negotiations with a single underwriter, thoroughly familiar with the financing company, are more likely to be best for borrower and investor than those that come out of a fierce competition among a group of bidding underwriters. Competitive bidding, they hold, "tends to overpricing the issue . . . and to subsequent dissatisfaction and losi of credit and good will of the borrower...