Word: distresses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supplied in exchange for slow or undesirable assets in member institutions; $3,595,000 supplied by Charles Stewart Mott, vice president of General Motors, to make up for defalcations in the Union Industrial Bank of Flint; $1,600,00 in credit lent by directors of the Group to carry distress loans of officers and employes; $3,384,000 paid by a group of stockholders to buy 18,800 shares of Group stock as relief for the Guardian Detroit Co.; $1,000,000 in cash and $5,000,000 in securities lent by Edsel Ford to help the same company...
...late husband's drills. Faced by the protests of the conservatives, she snapped: "This is a relief measure. We are interested in knowing only one thing about any artist-is he in need of employment? My instructions from the Government are to relieve artists in distress, not to promote any particular kind of art. ... I will work to the limit but I won't waste my time fighting." Neither a member of a committee nor in immediate want, Artist John Sloan who three weeks ago took over the pupils of the late great George Luks (TIME...
...write you suggesting that graft should be eliminated in Harvard-Yale game tickets. The use of the word may distress you. To use it means unjustified, unwarranted, special privilege...
From the opening gong in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Chocolate, his thickly greased hair shining almost grey above his ebony skin, hammered Canzoneri with his customary cruel grace. Canzoneri's flat, froglike face showed neither distress nor surprise. In the opening of the second round Canzoneri sent Chocolate reeling with a right to the temple. Chocolate, astonished, fought his way clear. A minute later Canzoneri doubled him over with a jab to the midriff, smashed a pile-driver right to his polished black jaw. Chocolate flopped flat on his face, his legs twitching. Gamely he dragged himself...
...lamented in the jewelry trade is the present want of buyers. Insurance firms report increases in jewelry insurance during the last few months, but trace them to people taking their jewels out of vaults and wearing them; not to new jewelry buying, despite a 40% increase in diamond imports. Distress stocks of defunct jewelry firms still hang unsold over the market and even the desire for possession of tangible goods as a hedge against Inflation has not led to any appreciable buying of jewels-possibly due partly to fear that if the South African diamond syndicate operating under that dominion...