Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held his own against an international shipping combine by the simple method of selling transportation cheaper than anyone else. Hugely successful at 45, he had bought Red Star Line lock, stock & barrel from International Mercantile Marine for $1,000,000 last month after practically running that 61-year-old concern off the sea with his cut rates (TIME, Feb. 18). Now that he had added the Pennland and Westernland to his fleet, he might do the same to other old-established lines...
...pass on the Metropolitan's new managerial force. Herbert Witherspoon, oldtime basso and now a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, was named to succeed General Manager Gatti. Experienced Edward Ziegler will be retained as assistant general manager. Tenor Edward Johnson was appointed as another assistant, to concern himself chiefly with the Juilliard's pet supplementary season...
...debt to be a national burden. We do not lose sight of the fact that one part of the country can not recover separately from the whole. Nor should sectional prejudice be raised at any time. But if the purchasing power of the unemployed be of such national concern as to justify such a large percentage of federal expenditure in the South and West, it is certainly unbusiness-like if patriotic for New England to go on creating, for relief expenditure a debt which it in the future must bear all alone...
...company, or any other manufacturing concern, subject to Federal regulation under the commerce clause of the Constitution? Quite definitely no. thought Judge Nields. In reaching this, the broadest section of his opinion, he observed: "The manufacturing operations conducted by defendant in its various plants or mills do not constitute interstate commerce. . . . If defendant's manufacturing plants and manufacturing operations are to be regarded as instruments for the interstate movement of goods it follows that practically all of the manufacturing industry of the United States would be brought within the control of the Federal government. Such result has received...
...himself to death in his Paris apartment in 1932, Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. was appointed receiver to conserve the assets of International Match Corp., the Swedish swindler's principal U. S. sinkhole. According to Kreuger's handmade balance sheets, Match was a $200,000,000 concern with world-wide properties. Discovering only $9,871 in cash, the receivers searched the wide world for other Match assets. It disputed the claims of Kreuger & Toll. It accused the German Government of "flagrant discrimination" between Swedish and U. S. creditors under the famed "Kreuger Loan," biggest single Match asset...