Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Banker-Governor Lehman is now running for the U. S. Senate, and local adversaries took mild issue with his figures, saying that some of his indicated surplus funds were already pledged, that he had played a common little trick of year-end balance reading. Sharper issue, against a national sounding-board, was taken by the ex-Governor who created the deficit. In his speech at Covington, Ky. (see p. 7), Franklin Roosevelt digressed...
...year-old Democrat Michelson, who has seen four Republican publicity ghosts come & go since he took over in his shop in 1929, denied that the free press was in peril but conceded that newspapers "love to trifle with the idea." Recalling a time when corruption of the press was common, and looking forward to a day when all newspapers would live up to the code of ethics observed by the best, Mr. Michelson mused: "But even in that better day, if it ever arrives, I darkly suspect that whenever the occasion offers, the press will rise in a body...
...Perry has long sought control of W. N. U. Two years ago, he barely missed it when W. N. U. called off a plan to throw itself into 77-B bankruptcy to scale down interest payments (TIME, April 27, 1936). Last month, he bought enough voting trust certificates and common stock shares to give him controlling interest, was elected president of W. N. U. to succeed Herbert Henry Fish who had served for 20 years. W. N. U. Directors R. Hosken Damon and Homer M. Preston, who had plans of their own, promptly sought a temporary injunction and the appointment...
...Among common drugs administered to make the gall bladder evacuate the bile are calomel (mercurous chloride), rhubarb, mandrake, jalap. New are the hormones secretin and cholecystokinin...
...United's stockholders were likely to vote was immediately indicated by the stock market. Same day the letter went out, United Corp. common was the most active security on the Big Board, rose from $3.12 to $3.50 on a turnover of 44,000 shares, while the preferred rose from $30.75 to $32.25 on a turnover of 5,600 shares...