Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lehman Corp. sold 1,000,000 shares of stock in 1929 for a flat $100,000,000 in cash. During Depression it found the most profitable use for its funds to be investments in its own stock, which sold at big discount from asset value. More than 300,000 shares were thus retired, and though Lehman's total assets are now only $62,700,000, asset value per share of common stock was more than $116 at the year-end as against $111 on the first day of business...
Technician. Behind a large desk in Washington's National Press Building sits Emil Hurja, calm, amiable, and utterly unmoved by the tides of politics. He never argues, never raises his voice. His only eloquence is a flat, staccato statement of what he considers to be fact. On the walls of his office hang twelve portraits of Andrew Jackson. The portraits are appropriate, for Emil Hurja went to Washington to apply modern business methods to political patronage. To distribute several hundred thousand jobs where they would do the most good for the Party, he established a model system of "political...
...calculates political pressure, not by the daily surge of press headlines, but by a dispassionate dipping into public sentiment far from the source of the immediate excitement. When Mr. Hurja looks in his black book, holding it close to his vest like a poker player, and says in a flat voice, "Roosevelt can lick Talmadge 4-to-1 in Florida," or "There is not a single Republican candidate who can carry his own state against Roosevelt," he is apt to be believed by non-partisan visitors...
...Philadelphia this winter the most amazing young musician has been Hilda Margot Betty Ros, a 10-year-old, olive-skinned Cuban, chosen by Conductor Leopold Stokowski to play the Mozart E Flat Concerto at his first Children's Concert. The Mozart concerto demands a sensitive hairline delicacy, particularly suited to young Margot's style of playing. With the praise she received, the Cuban prodigy could have gone on to make flashy headlines. Instead, she stuck to her studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, lives in one room with her mother, father, two sisters. A subsidy from...
...Leichtentritt. The orchestra is sponsored by the W.P.A. Richard Burgin is conducting this week at the Boston Symphony concerts, and the program contains Roy Harris's Second Symphony, the suite of dances from "The Basque Venus" by Wetzler, and Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto no. 5 in E flat with Leonard Shure, local artist, at the piano. This is Mr. Shure's debut with the orchestra...