Word: drew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rest of the Drake Estate "contributors." After he had put up $6,000 of his mother's money, he made a trip to England in 1922 to see how it was being spent. There he promptly switched from the giving to the receiving end of the business, drew an income of $2,500 a week and became known in London's night clubs as "The Baron." In 1933 England shipped Baron Hartzell back to the U. S. and fortnight ago he took another trip, at Government expense, from Leavenworth to Chicago, headquarters of the racket for the past...
...from fear of the Federal Reserve Board, whooped gladly and put on a brisk weekend rally. Headlined the New York Times: WASHINGTON WILL NOT APPLY BRAKES TO BOOM IN STOCKS; ECCLES CALLS IT HEALTHFUL. Said one smart broker, reading Governor Eccles' statement: "Best market letter in years!" Traders drew only one moral: the Administration's "breathing spell" for business is to be followed by a breathing spell for the Stock Exchange...
...staged a bloody uprising few weeks before the Filipino people went to the polls last May to approve the new Constitution. Now the Sakdalistas were plotting heaven knew what mischief in the Commonwealth's first hour. Taking no chances, the constabulary and a detachment of U. S. troops drew up in a hollow square which kept nonofficial spectators a full 60 yd. from President Quezon as he was sworn in on the steps of the neoclassic Legislative Building...
...Cyril drew his sad conclusions from 3.000.000 words of testimony presented in a 62-day trial of a British law suit against Walter P. Chrysler, his motor corporation and several of his high command. Eight years ago Chrysler Corp. bought out its British-owned distributors. Chrysler Motors, Ltd.. which was making handsome profits on its Chrysler franchise. Some of the stockholders in the London agency claimed that they had been persuaded to sell their stock under threats, that they had not received the true value of their shares. Led by Arnold de la Poer, former director of the British...
...presiding judge in last night's litigation was the Honorable James B. Drew, Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. His colleagues were the Honorable William W. Moss, Justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island; and the Honorable Stanley E. Qua, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...