Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cowles got in on the ground floor when America's first squash courts were built at the Harvard Club of New York, where he had been playing squash tennis, nearly 25 years ago. In 1920 he came to Harvard, destined to coach 17 undefeated teams. His book, "The Art of Squash Racquets," is the standard manual of the game...
Desperately seeking to avoid an open fight on the convention floor, the Association's officials brought in to the final session a resolution ducking a commitment on specific Federal aid legislation until after study of the Reeves Committee's full report, not yet published. Unappeased, Professor Strayer strode to the auditorium platform to again demand "separation of Church and State," boomed: "If this movement develops sufficient strength, we may find ourselves in the not distant future committed to a program which will deny to the people the control of their schools." But he made no effort to amend...
...floor of the New York Stock Exchange one morning this week the gong bonged as usual at 10 a. m., opening the day's trading. Slowly the ticker tapped out the first sale-100 shares of Lehman Corp. at $25.50 per share. The market was dull. Suddenly the bell rang again, bringing trading to a sharp halt. As a man the hushed brokers turned toward the rostrum to hear an astounding announcement: the firm of Richard Whitney & Co. was unable to meet its obligations...
...issued a public statement. For Richard Whitney was the Depression president of the Stock Exchange, is a brother of Morgan Partner George Whitney. Richard Whitney & Co. had always been known as "the Morgan brokers." It was in behalf of a Morgan banking group that Richard Whitney strode across the floor to U. S. Steel post on a dark day in 1929 to bid $2.05 per share for 25,000 shares of steel -15 points above the market. That spectacular bid temporarily stayed the avalanche and the tall figure of Richard Whitney became the hero of the crash...
Skating to victory on a floor waxed to the glossiness of a ballroom floor, the Yale Freshmen routed the Yardling basketballers 63-31 Saturday afternoon at New Haven...