Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drank as much as or more than they did before prohibition. All say that prohibition is a sad, degrading farce. The only hope they have for unfastening the .millstone around their necks is that the Volstead act will gradually fall into desuetude and that the nation will, by common agreement, observe it in the breach as we do some of our old Stuart blue laws...
...finance its purchase, I. T. & T. announced an issue of $57,300,000 ten-year, 4½% gold debenture bonds, convertible after July 1, 1929, into I. T. & T. common stock. Heading the banking syndicate will be, of course, I. T. & T.'s early friend and first banker, the great house of J. P. Morgan...
...incorporation of United Aircraft and Transport, Inc. A holding company, it will own all stock of Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. (Wasp, Hornet motors), Chance Vought Corp. (Corsair planes) Boeing Airplane and Transport Co. (manufacturers and transporters). Capitalization: 1,000,000 shares 6% preferred, par $50; 2,500,000 common. President: William E. Boeing, president of Boeing. Board Chairman: Frederick B. Rentschler, President Pratt & Whitney. Financing handled by National City of Manhattan, Pacific National of Seattle. Officials of National City, Standard Oil, Ford Motor and General Motors are directors...
...spite of the ratification of the Sunday Sports amendment by a vote of three to one in the City of Boston, the Common Council has just tabled a resolution to give effect to the mandate of the people as expressed at the polls. In Massachusetts, Blue Laws have always been in style, and the country members of the legislature have until this year succeeded in upholding the morals of the cities at least one day a week. But on November 6, by means of an initiative petition, the people of the state were at last able to declare their will...
...advertisement made it known that C. C. Kerr & Co., of the New York Curb Market were offering for sale 250,000 shares of common stock priced at $10 a share in the Jenkins Television Corp. (total capitalization $10,000,000). The purpose of the Jenkins Television Corp., as expressed in a letter written by President James W. Garside, was to "transmit or broadcast television pictures and programs; to transmit photographs ... to engage in the broad development, exploitation and sale of television and image transmitting apparatus. . . ." The advertisement pointed out that the development of television so far has paralleled that...