Word: district
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brokers present sober, useful information. But there are also many "blue-sky" writeups that promise great things and fast-buck operators who spread rumors. "The same wild rumor that moved a stock one-eighth a year ago seems to move it eight points today," says Paul Windels Jr., Manhattan district boss...
...conspired to deny it merchandise, except at extremely unfavorable terms, because of pressure brought by Broadway-Hale's using its monopolistic buying power. The defendants did not deny the boycott, but claimed that the public could still buy the same goods at many other San Francisco stores. The District Court thereupon concluded that the suit was a "purely private quarrel." Flatly rejecting the argument, the Supreme Court said the conspiracy against Klor's was a full-fledged illegal restraint of trade. "As such, it is not to be tolerated merely because the victim is just one merchant whose...
There is order in Belele and the surrounding desert because Major de Goltz creates it through simple brutality. His command is a native Mule Company of blacks, whom he keeps in line with regular floggings. In all the district his word is law, and since he is close to seven feet tall and can break a man's jaw with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak...
...John Gielgud, Margaret Leighton, and Siobhan McKenna will perform this summer for the Cambridge Drama Festival in an all-Shakespeare program. They will appear in a 2000-seat theater being built for the Metropolitan District Commission on Soldiers Field Road past the Stadium...
Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, will act as toastmaster. Other speakers will be John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '38, who ran for Congress in the tenth district last fall; Robert Murphy, lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts; and Endicott Peabody '42, who sought nomination for attorney-general last summer...