Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glass Tycoon George A. Ball, sold 46% of Alleghany Corp.'s common stock along with some real estate to a trio of virtual unknowns for $6,375,000 ($4,000,000 in cash, rest in notes). This trio consisted of two Wall Streeters. Robert Ralph Young and Frank Frederick Kolbe, and Allan Price Kirby, son of one of the F. W. Woolworth Co. founders. Admitting that they were "babes in the woods," the new bosses of the Van Sweringen empire set put to simplify Allegheny's elaborate holding company substructure, have been lost in the woods ever since...
Before the game, the Freshmen elected Frederick A. Keyes, the shortstop, as captain. Keyes prepared at Boston Latin. Where he played third base...
...Republicans, with 91 delegates, elected as President Republican Chief Judge Frederick Evan Crane of the State Court of Appeals. To strike the proper non-partisan keynote, the convention then unanimously elected as Honorary President happy Democrat Alfred Emanuel Smith, a veteran of the 1915 convention. After a learned speech by President Crane on the virtues of democracy, the delegates, who will receive a $2,500 salary for their streamlining and hope to finish it by summer, recessed. Major streamlines suggested: a unicameral Legislature; replacing the present Department of Law under an elected Attorney-General by a department of justice under...
...more poignant cry for information on this touchy subject (see p. 57) rose in Manhattan last week. At a discussion on marriage, conducted by the New York Province of College Catholic Clubs, a young woman asked: "Is the rhythmic cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral...
That a boom in building would do much to break depression, everyone knows. That Government-financed low-cost housing will start the boom, Franklin Roosevelt's Administration sincerely hopes. Last week an announcement by Frederick Ecker, chairman of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., cheered The Bronx and indicated that private finance could do its part. Mr. Ecker's announcement: Metropolitan has signed contracts with builders to put up $35,000,000 worth of housing, covering 120 acres in The Bronx. This development will be by far the biggest housing project ever undertaken in the U. S. When completed three...