Word: divest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moaned an Etonian two days later in the Personal column of the London Times: Will the numerous Harrovians who, in at tempting to divest a very old Etonian of his trousers, deprived him of two treasured five shilling pieces and a gold safety pin please return one or all to the Army and Navy Club...
...president, not necessarily a broker, would be hired by the Board of Governors, would have to divest himself of all other business interests, would have power to appoint, subject to approval by the board, all officers except the chairman and vice-chairman of the board...
...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
...year, depending on income, so that G.O.A.A.A. members could all remain in the union. Having thus accomplished exactly what it had planned to, but with a minimum of friction, it remained for the Guild, as a legally constituted labor union with a new membership of small-fry artists, to divest itself of the appearance of being a club of big names. As if aware of this. Baritone Bonelli at once announced a drive to unionize even the mighty Metropolitan. But he added: "I hope I'll never see the day when Guild members will have to go on strike...
...Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing his bathrobe to a valet.". . . In a Yorkshire cave 300 ft. underground a knot of people sit round a radio, listening intently. They are members of the British Speleological...