Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men would presumably be above "Politics." Mature men with mellowed wisdom who could guide the U. S. ably and firmly. At the present time the best abilities of these men are not devoted to the common good to the extent that they could be. Example: Our own good Herbert Hoover...
...marriage; that would make her 28 or 29 now. It is virtually certain that Edda, whoever her mother was, was born out of wedlock. Socialist Mussolini, an extreme anticlerical, would scarcely have permitted himself a church wedding, and civil weddings were practically unheard of. Besides, it was common knowledge, until at least 1920, that Benito and Rachele had never bothered to go through a marriage ceremony. A romantic story has it that Edda's trips to London, made in the late 1920s ostensibly for pleasure, were to see her real mother, who, it is said, died of tuberculosis about...
...years later during the famed investigation which sired the Securities Exchange Act, Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora brought out that at that peak the "United group" controlled 22-to-23% of U. S. electric production, some 22% of gas output; and that its half billion dollars of common stocks had brought under Morgan domination a utility empire* ("worth...
...extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened to own 4,070,000 shares of Niagara Hudson common. By an exchange of stock, United became the largest stockholder of Niagara Hudson and Mr. Carlisle's St. Regis Paper Co. became the largest stockholder in United-owning 2,170,666 shares (15%) against 1,670,000 shares owned by the Morgan-Bonbright interests...
...investment company and. as opportunity permits, to diversify its portfolio and participate in the financing and underwriting of new capital issues in the public utility and other fields." As a first step United asked permission to invest $8,000,000 of its $12,400,000 of cash in industrial common stocks. Last March SEC gave consent; last week United showed that it had begun...