Word: corpe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inaugural. He soaked them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money...
Most sympathetic foreign reaction to the Roosevelt message came from Britain. British Broadcasting Corp. aired the full text for its own listeners. Salient passages were also sent into Germany, Italy and France during the nightly "straight news" period from the powerful Daventry transmitter. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who has been soundly scored for months by many Britons for not saying what Mr. Roosevelt did, jumped on the Washington speech for a political free ride. He adopted the Roosevelt sentiments about the aggressor nations...
...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
...public-loss: he did only a limited brokerage business, carried no margin accounts, and was mainly interested in underwriting. The Exchange charged him with juggling J. A. Sisto & Co.'s books to make his personal trading account look unprofitable; he was also accused of arranging for Sisto Financial Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares of its stock from him at $23 a share about the same time he bought them for $15.12⅛. This sort of thing was not uncommon in the easy-going twenties. But last week SEC, District...
...Trufant Foster) a book called The Road to Plenty showing how the U. S. boom could be made to pop higher & higher like a Roman candle. In 1928 and 1929 Waddill Catchings got conservative old Goldman, Sachs & Co. to light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...