Word: filed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lost his right-hand stenographer, sleek, black-haired, punctilious Henry M. Kannee, 40, his shorthand-man since Sept. 12, 1932. Scrupulous Henry, who worships F. D. R., left behind in the White House a file-full of his stenographer's notebooks, fat with more than nine years of secrets; left with the high regard of White House reporters, who were eternally grateful to him for many things but especially one-the night of Feb. 15, 1933, at the Miami Bay Front Park when Giuseppe Zangara shot at Franklin Roosevelt, fatally wounded Chicago's Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak instead...
...some underwriters (like Dillon, Read) and to big exchange members, such off-the-market distributions have been a lucrative sideline to regular business. But the rank & file of Stock Exchange members have had to stand by and squirm while a lot of potential commissions went over the counter & far away. Many a broker wondered last week whether the Big Board was about to become merely a device for establishing quotations, while the business went elsewhere. Their only consolation: that big blocks of stock like Harkness' are being distributed into small investors' hands, whence it is likelier than before...
Divorced. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., nomadic writer and onetime publisher; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; after six years' marriage, during which Mrs. Vanderbilt, his third wife, sought several times to file separation suits, was frustrated on each occasion because process servers could not locate the restless Vanderbilt trailer; in Carson City...
...rolled out of Fort Bliss, down a rutty road, and out on the Texas plain. Beyond the stubby noses of the cars stretched wave on wave of "bondocks" (sand hummocks, topped by sage and greasewood) and deep arroyos. Behind the scout cars, a mile across the twisted land, stood file after file of horsemen, half-hidden in the brush. The U. S. Cavalry was about to have some...
...wrote Lord Campbell, "when he wished to throw off the authority of the Pope, thinking that as long as the name of St. Thomas should remain in the calendar men would be stimulated by his example to brave the ecclesiastical authority of the Sovereign, instructed his Attorney General to file a quo warranto information against him [Thomas a Becket" for usurping the office of a Saint. . . ." Verdict: guilty of rebellion and treason...