Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work was banned, not because it was abstract, but because he was Jewish. Franz Marc, represented by his famed Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were dwarfed by the exiles represented: Abstractionist Paul Klee, Satirist George Grosz, Lyonel Feininger, who became a champion bicycle racer before he became one of the leading German cubists. For the London show, Austrian-born Oskar Kokoschka sent...
...Effected regulation of over-the-counter security trading after three years' study by SEC. Passed by Congress just before adjournment was the Maloney bill granting SEC indirect control over 0-T-C trading through dealers' associations. The 9,000-odd active 0-T-C dealers are supposed to band together in geographical groups, draw up rules, elect officers and police themselves (all subject to SEC approval). If SEC decides that this has failed to prevent manipulation, excessive commissions, other unfair practices, it may step in. Though last week's act exempted dealers in Government, State and municipal...
...last and most legendary of the White Russian counter-revolutionists rounded up by the Soviet Government was Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg, diminutive, monstrously capricious, brilliant commander of the East Asiatic Cossack Division, who in his last stand in Outer Mongolia beat the best the Red Army sent against him, went down to defeat only when his own officers rebelled against his sadistic despotism...
...game shows are cheapest. Last week came evidence that the trend was well established in Europe. British Broadcasting Corp. last week challenged chess-playing listeners to a match by radio and mail. Six staff members chosen to play BBC's game will broadcast their moves. Listeners will I counter by postcard. The broadcasting players will meet the move suggested by a majority of listeners, will thus be able to ignore the tough ones suggested by isolated listening experts. The schedule calls for three broadcast moves a week...
...last week total bond trading on the New York Stock Exchange was a pee-wee $3,270,000. smallest five-hour day in 20 years. The same day, trading in bonds on the over-the-counter market, which has been grabbing more & more of the bond business, was estimated at $18,000,000. Over-the-counter bond trading amounts to wholesaling such as that of banks and insurance companies buying and selling huge blocks at a time ($5,000,000 in one deal is not unusual). Deals this big are virtually impossible on the Exchange because the attendant publicity would...