Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novice to the intricacies of the bowels of Widener Library had a thrilling time Saturday morning when he tried to keep an appointment with a professor on the fourth floor. According to his story he went into the stacks first. Finding only the low 400's there, he went upstairs, and there found the 500's. Downstairs again, he weaved through the rows of books until he found himself standing face to face with the door of the office he was looking for, except that there was a sturdy iron fence in between...
...doors seemed to be locked, so he made his way down to the first floor, where he found himself at an impasse with a series of bound volumes of the New York Herald Tribune. So he wended, or wound, his way back up the four flights, out the delivery desk, and down to the main floor again, and found the elevator by the process of elimination and antagonization, being then 20 minutes late...
...elevator was in use, so he walked up one flight. On the second floor the red light went out so he pushed the button and the machine started up again, but just as he was about to open the door it started up a second time. Someone above had beat him to it. But little did either of them know that the professor who had decided not to wait and was trying to get out was still imprisoned in the elevator. The student found that out when he craftily pulled open the door as the elevator went down past...
...left by Richard Whitney, onetime president of the New York Stock Exchange, who was caught last fortnight stealing his customers' securities (TIME, March 21). Other sequels to the Whitney scandal last week included: 1) his expulsion forever from the Stock Exchange; 2) suspension for three years of his floor partners, Edwin D. Morgan Jr. and Henry D. Mygatt, because Exchange custom demands such a penalty even though they were exonerated of any knowledge of the criminal acts; 3) filing of bankruptcy petitions by Partners Mygatt and F. Kingsley Rodewald; 4) a plea of guilty by Richard Whitney...
...June; two partners of Jesse Hyman & Co. convicted of grand larceny together with William F. Enright, who had charge of the security box of Winthrop, Mitchell & Co., after this reputable firm discovered Enright had lent some $2,000,000 of its customers' funds to the Hyman partners; the floor partner of Thomas & Griffith, suspended from dealing on the Exchange for three years because the firm had over-hypothecated customers' funds, but not prosecuted because it was able to return the securities. To cap his list, Mr. McCall had a new case last week-Campagnoli & Co., a house dealing...