Word: curbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year, net income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock for the convenience of present owners, mostly family members and widely scattered...
...concluding session next day the Chamber authorized its directors to draft a program for amendment of the Wagner Act on nine points: 1) a curb on sit-down strikes; 2) prohibition of political contri-butions by unions; 3) outlawing of "intimidation" by unions; 4) limitation of picketing to "giving information"; 5) compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in public utilities; 6) prohibition of strikes by Government employes; 7) public registration of both employer and employe groups negotiating labor agreements; 8) definition of ''unlawful labor practices" under the Wagner Act; 9) establishment of the responsibility of Labor. Elected president...
...Mexico, churchmen claimed they defeated a bill to legalize gambling, took credit for laws banning curb sales of liquor, providing Sunday closing of bars...
...Harrison, a U. S. financier whose calling cards gave his address as "St. James Court, Buckingham Gate, S. W. I." Mr. Harrison was already under Federal indictment for flagrantly misrepresenting the assets of a certain Big Wedge Gold Mining Co., of California. This time his promotion of "The London Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood of his address was not inappropriate, because the chief backer of the London Curb was none other than Martin Coles Harman, famed...
...coining Lundy money in the form of 50,000 "puffins"' and "half puffins" bearing his own likeness and that of Lundy's "national bird," the parrot-beaked sea-puffin (TIME, Jan. 26, 1931). In his day of power, wealthy King Harman often proposed a London Curb Exchange to British financiers, who saw no earthly reason for it because the London Stock Exchange, unlike U. S. exchanges, deals in all securities, whether formally listed...