Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Africa, producers of half the world's gold. Benguet and Balatoc, managed by John W. Haussermann, a U. S. citizen long resi- dent in Manila, comprise about 80% of the Philippine gold industry. Not listed on U. S. exchanges, Benguet stock (par value: 5?) is traded over the counter. Current price: $15. Near Benguet's holdings at Baguio, Philippine summer resort north of Manila, there were 16 other companies in 1932, including Big Wedge Mining which in January, 1932, uncovered a rich new field. When the U. S. started buying gold last year. 58 new mining brokers registered...
...exist behind the compulsory bond. The concession is a virtual miniature gold mine. In the square on the other hand where prices are far more nominal, charge accounts exist in sparcity because the merchant has no positive guarantee. Consequently students are driven into the arms of the Night Lunch Counter because there a charge account is accepted. One thing must be done to end this gross exploitation. The University must run the Night Lunch on a non-profit basis and make public its accounts to guarantee the security of this basis. Moreover I condemn the CRIMSON for letting conditions roll...
...Delimitation of the Commission's powers instead of the blanket power now provided. But its authority to regulate over-the-counter markets will be widened...
...Cochin-China, first entered the Chamber of Deputies in 1893. In the past 40 years he has popped in & out of various Cabinet posts, was Premier for a brief period (December 1913-May 1914). He first became an international figure in 1924. Amid a cyclone of charges and counter-charges Alexandre Millerand was accused of having interfered in party affairs, was forced to resign the Presidency. Politicians turned instinctively to the round little fellow who had never been connected with any political scandal, a bachelor, a Protestant, and after a lifetime in politics, still a poor...
...frequent criticism of brisk Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman's "Oxford Group Movement" or "First Century Christian Fellowship" has been that its members are too exclusively preoccupied with well-tailored, socially presentable people. Group members counter by telling how they "changed" (converted) an old Pennsylvania bootlegger called "Bill Pickle"; how in London Group workers live in slum quarters; how a poor little girl was changed, telling her mother that God wanted her to help with the housework...