Word: commonnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grover Whalen and Jimmy Walker, models of sartorial perfection though both were, had little in common. Whalen was an ambitious man but he had none of the Walker flair, and after two years Walker was glad to get rid of him. Since then Grover Whalen's talents have been devoted to private business and movements for civic improvement, chief of which was heading NRA's headquarters in Manhattan. Last year, he got an even bigger job: head promoter for New York City's World's Fair of 1939. Once more his tailored form was produced...
...operation came to an end last March when the date of redemption rolled around and the company still made no move to redeem its preferred stock. Far from paying dividends, it had lost $63,879 in 1935, $89,257 in 1936. By March ist, though U. S. Steel common had risen from a 1936 low of $46 to around $113, Pittsburgh United's equity was still nearly $4,000,000 short of its original value of $16,000,000. Since Big Steel was expected to resume payments on its common within a year, Pittsburgh United's common stockholders...
Last week Judge Elder W. Marshall in Pittsburgh's Court of Common Pleas handed down his decision, ordering Pittsburgh United to liquidate enough of its U. S. Steel holdings to pay off $1,227,187 in bank loans made by Pittsburgh's First National and the Chemical Bank & Trust Co. With the U. S. Steel common which had been held as collateral for these loans, he ordered Peoples-Pittsburgh to redeem Pittsburgh United preferred and in 30 days to turn over its remaining assets to Pittsburgh United. Immediately the preferred jumped from...
...emotional spectacle as that of Senator McCarran of Nevada speaking after a prolonged illness, in passionate opposition to the Supreme Court Bill, is by no means unprecedented in the annals of Congressional debate. Other Senators have also taken the floor, disregarding their physicians' orders, with the knowledge common in the Senate galleries that the effort might cost their lives...
Bankruptcy laws of today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated...