Word: curbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first metallic booming fills the morning air, a taxi slithers rudely along the curb, and an elderly gentleman disembarks. His frock coat is spotless and lately pressed, although it no longer accomodates his increasing girth with the proper tailored case. If the warm spring breeze should rustle his coat tails the gardenia vendor on the opposite curb would notice that the back of the gentleman's trousers has a guilty sheen, but mercifully, there is no such mischievous breeze. The cab fare amounts to 75 cents, and the gentleman hands the driver a dollar. He is embarassed to hold...
...Alone." Investigations were begun by the Stock Exchange, the SEC and State Attorney General John James Bennett Jr. Distilled Liquors stock flopped on the Curb to $3.50 a share. The Attorney General's office called in Robert J. Rosenthal, cashier of Richard Whitney & Co. Cashier Rosenthal revealed that Richard Whitney had established "Richard Whitney's stock control account" in January, had transferred big batches of customers' securities to it, then apparently hypothecated them for personal loans. The first such transfer revealed was $125,000 worth of securities belonging to the New York Yacht Club. Other revelations: Dick...
Just what brought failure to Richard Whitney was not disclosed. It was reported that the firm was heavily involved in Philippine Railway bonds, in cheap railway stocks, in a Curb issue called Distilled Liquors. Meantime the Stock Exchange scheduled a hearing next fortnight, the New York Attorney General launched an investigation, and Richard Whitney & Co. filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in Federal court, listing debts of "more than...
...never have imagined the fun of playing hob with a company's books. Expand an asset here, thumbnose at a liability there, list the right figures in the wrong columns, and a company would soon be unable to tell its assets from its inventory. Last week, the Manhattan Curb Exchange and the Amsterdam Bourse suspended trading in the stock of Interstate Hosiery Mills, Inc. while its officials tried to make sense of its balance sheet. A small, rather bald accountant named Raymond Marien was being held in jail. Accountants all over the country sighed sympathetically...
...shelf to make a deal on lesser but vital points. It was said that Dr. Schuschnigg, an ardent Monarchist, had agreed to do nothing to better the chances of Archduke Otto to :obtain the Austrian Throne, while Herr Hitler agreed to force the Austrian Nazis again to curb their recently much increased activities (TIME, Feb. 7). On this point Dr. Schuschnigg reputedly showed that he has documentary proofs of German financing and instigation of plots against his Government by Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return for a reputed pledge by Hitler to squelch Austrian Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged...