Word: corps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gambling was an aspect of Frick's adventuresomeness. He speculated in stocks and boldly used his inside, forehanded knowledge culled from directors' meetings in which he sat. At early meetings of U. S. Steel Corp. directors, Judge Gary, Methodist, often caught Frick matching $20 gold pieces with fellow directors-Henry H. Rogers, N. B. Ream, P. A. B. Widener. The Judge made them stop their games...
...Coolidge announced that the Farm Labor Board would extend a $30,000,000 credit to co-operative marketing associations which had been hit by the slump in cotton prices. The next day, the President appointed Secretaries Mellon, Hoover, Jardine and Eugene Meyer Jr., Managing Director of the War Finance Corp., as a commission to devise orderly methods of selling the large cotton stock on hand...
...features of the salon was the new Erskine Six, labeled "the first European type of six-cylinder car built in America." The machine is named for Albert Erskine, president of the Studebaker Corp., speeds 60 miles an hour, nets 25 miles to the gallon. Mr. Erskine was not in Paris to see his car support the U. S. invasion of European markets. At his desk in the home of Studebaker at South Bend, Ind., he was thinking politics, writing a telegram...
...refused the post of Secretary of the Navy when Edwin Denby resigned (TIME, March 24, 1924.) Judge Kenyon is often mentioned as potential material for a future Supreme Court appointment. +The day after Judge Kenyon's decision, the common stock of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corp. fell to a new low for the year (18%). Meanwhile, statisticians busied themselves, announced that the oil yields from Teapot Dome had been disappointing after...
Next to the Glatt farm, the Lincoln Standard Aircraft Corp. opened a school for air pilots. Great sport was had by Farmer Glatt and family, at first, watching. Then tyro pilots took to "zooming" (swooping low at) the Glatt house, barn, barnyard, cows, chickens. Farmer Glatt's hens laid few eggs. Baby chicks died of fright. Glatt cows grew nervous, Glatt horses shied, Glatt hogs grunted...