Word: dragging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short sales "below'' the last price, SEC's action was not on its face of great importance. * More significant was SEC's remark that since the exchange's rule had not been effective, SEC would have to take over. Having thus prepared for a drag-out scrap Bill Douglas was surprised and pleased by the new exchange proposal. The Conway committee was made up of three exchange members, two nonmember partners and four outsiders, of whom one was New Dealer Adolf A. Berle Jr. and another, Publisher Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal...
...Freshman lineup showed Eider, at number 1, Drag, at number 2, and W. Stablear at back...
...figures in this play. Eileen Crowe plays Nora, the wife. In her efforts to save her husband she mocks the barricaded rebels, and charges them with fear to admit their fear. One feels that she abhors the struggle only because it destroys here own happiness, for in trying to drag Jack out of the fight she is oblivious of the agony of a man dying at their feet, and in her insane delusion that Jack is about to return, she takes no notice of a woman's death for which she is responsible...
Though they come from the ends of the earth," they telephone their lawyers. A good punch on the nose of one or the other of the two men would have settled the leadership of the Rhode Island Decocracy more quickly than the present litigation, which will drag out for years and leave the victorious merely the man whose legal crutch contains the smallest percentage of rubber...
...protocol, arranging principally for consultative machinery to prevent war or provide unified Inter-American action in case war is forced upon any of the American republics-have reposed in official discard since their birth a year ago. Publicity given the flying caravan sent Latin American officials scurrying to drag out copies of the conventions. Informed by the U. S. diplomatic representative of the expected caravan visit, one Foreign Minister exclaimed: "My God! We had forgotten all about those treaties. I shall send them to Congress immediately...