Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rocking in the wake of Mr. Stuart Scrymgeour's artificial-flowery spate of indignation (TIME, Jan. 9), I am reminded that contemporaries of Alexander Scrymgeour, of the days of William Wallace, sometimes referred to him as Alexander Skirmisher, the forms scrimmage and skirmish illustrating the R-metathesis common in English and other Germanic languages. That Mr. Scrymgeour knows how to pronounce his name, or that ancestors of both of us were skirmishers and huntsmen in Scotland "afore the Saxons landed," I do not doubt; but a Scot who supposes that these forbears bore our present, or any other, established...
...trickles from artesian wells, one 1,500 feet deep, or with the stagnant liquid in rain-wells which ancient Persians are supposed to have cut in the rocks. Colonials' rum-punches are earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under pirated labels). Such sports as camel-racing can be indulged in when it is not too hot. The port, a strategic and impregnable naval base (sometimes called the Gibraltar of the East) bristles with guns...
Outstanding as of June 1, 1938, were 1,241,816 common shares held by 4,300 men, 4,084 women, 2,708 trusts, groups, institutions. Mr. Queeny holds only 3.4% has beneficial interest in about 4.5% more through relatives and trusts. One officer of the company owns 1.47%, no others own more than...
...proposed merging it with Chesapeake. His idea was that the owners of 667,539 shares of Alleghany preferred-including several potent friends of Guaranty Trust-should surrender their stock and their right to accumulated dividends of $33 per share in exchange for a new type of preferred and common-stock warrants. This plan was thwarted by Guaranty, which held Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake as collateral for Alleghany bonds in technical default...
Last week trouble arrived in the form of an SEC order for a hearing February 14 to determine whether A. G. & E.'s common stock should be delisted from the New York Curb and other stock exchanges. SEC said it believed the company's registration statement to be "false and misleading" in certain particulars which had the effect of substantially overstating assets, etc. A. G. & E. promptly retorted: "It appears that the matters covered by the order relate largely to accounting theory...