Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only a sprinkling of the 17,000 ardent track fans who last week filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden and overflowed three deep around the rim were surprised when Kansan Glenn Cunningham, now running for the New York Curb Exchange and mightier than ever at 28, won the Wanamaker Mile for the fifth time in six years. But they were all quite unprepared for what they witnessed in the running of the 60-yd. dash...
...brief to the U. S. Supreme Court attacking the Utility Holding Company Act of 1935. On behalf of the U. S. Government, Messrs. Homer Cummings, Robert Jackson, Thomas Corcoran and Ben Cohen simultaneously filed a brief which asserted, among other things, that if Congress has the right to curb white slavery and bootleg liquor it "certainly is not without power to curb financial chicanery and abuses which have brought ruin to millions." Thus, after over two years of catch-as-catch-can in the lower courts, did the utility industry and the Government finally come to the mat before...
...members of the Chicago Stock Exchange have lately had to content themselves with trading only 50,000 shares a day. * Hence the Chicago Exchange ranks behind the New York Stock Exchange, New York Curb and the Boston Stock Exchange as a securities market. Last week to prove that it ranks behind no U. S. market in progressiveness, the Chicago Exchange beat the New York Stock Exchange to a major reform proposal by 24 hours...
Pointing out that A. F. of L. was ready to compromise on the question of industrial unionism for mass production industries and had even agreed tentatively to a curb on the powers of its executive committee, the editorial went on to say that the ''amazing thing" was that the "logical and workable solution" of the remaining difficulties was "completely tossed out of the window." This proposal was to set up joint subcommittees to settle the jurisdictional claims of rival C. I. O. & A. F. of L. unions, subsequently allowing the original C. I. 0. unions to return...
...friends of Cuba." From the Post Office the Tribune got a warning, replied with an apology. From public opinion it received the most damaging attack that a U. S. newspaper has had to stand for since a Hearst photographer dangerously crowded Col. Charles Lindbergh's car to the curb on a hairpin curve three years ago, snapped a picture of Baby...