Word: craig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Completed last week by the young New Orleans cotton house of Tullis, Craig & Co. was one of the smartest cotton market operations in many a moon. It was not a spectacular coup. Indeed Partner Garner H. Tullis tried to pooh-pooh accumulating gossip with a signed statement: "I wish to state in regard to the so-called operations of our firm in December that the entire story has been greatly exaggerated both in magnitude and effect...
Weeks ago, foreseeing a shortage in good grades of spot cotton, Tullis, Craig started to buy December contracts, which are contracts calling for delivery in that month. In the normal course of trading on a cotton futures market, little if any lint is actually delivered. Those who sold cotton short either as a hedge or as a speculation simply buy back their contracts, bringing everybody out even without the bother of handling the staple at all. Messrs. Tullis & Craig, however, demanded real cotton. This they had a perfect right to do, but when the word first spread through the trade...
...lofty position for the first time in 1934 when Federal prosecutors preparing mail fraud cases against certain oil company officials heard that an attempt had been made to bribe other Federal officials in the interest of the defendants. Their investigation resulted in indictments against Queen Helen, Justice Gavin Craig of the District Court of Appeals and a minor politician named Joseph Weinblatt. Last year Justice Craig and Weinblatt were convicted and sentenced, but Queen Helen was freed...
Frolicking happily by the shore of a Swiss lake, the Craig children, Penny (Deanna Durbin), Joan (Nan Grey) and Kay (Barbara Read), find their mother in tears over the news that their father, a New York banker, divorced ten years ago, is planning to marry again. Instead of laughing at this news as sophisticated children might well do, the small Craigs react like little Peppers. They decide the situation demands action. Borrowing fare from their nurse, they embark for New York, arrive when Judson Craig (Charles Winninger) is sitting down to lunch with his inamorata, Precious (Binnie Barnes). From...
Gathered in the Red Lacquer Room of the Palmer House for a ceremonial banquet to Librarian Roden were the University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Northwestern's President Walter Dill Scott, Episcopal Bishop George Craig Stewart, 250 other citizens. Librarian Roden bashfully received a volume of testimonial letters from 175 of his colleagues throughout the world. Said President Hutchins: "We have met tonight to honor one of the great educators of the Middle West. ... The Chicago Public Library was one of the first to realize its educational as distinguished from its storage functions...