Word: funds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confessedly musical, Mr. Ballantine has a sizeable fund of knowledge about other things. When he does state a fact which lies outside his field, it is always annoying to discover that it is correct. Perhaps the final answer to this Professor of Music lies in his environment, The son of a Congregationalist minister and a practical mother, there was no reason to expect his talent. One brother teaches law at the University of California and another struggles with hopeless problems of taxes and finance. The youngest son of such a family is liable to be smothered by such a plethora...
...might induce some of the impartial police, personally, to join us: Chief Cato. for example. I may ask some picked ranchers to come in on it and your Mr. Secretary Smith could invite the highbrow newspapermen he sees daily. They might have a sense of humor. If the fund should exceed the price of one cheap typewriter I'll keep the difference for the purchase of another if the first one should be wrecked in some righteous raid...
...left in the U. S. Treasury. Later Congress gave the Secretary of the Treasury $2,000,000,000 of that profit to use as he saw fit in stabilization of dollar exchange. Promptly he told the Press that he would never say a word about the operations of the fund. The "gold increment" of devaluation remained as such on the Treasury's balance sheets until last week, when $2,000,000,000 suddenly dropped out of that figure and a new item cropped up, a liability of $1,800,000,000 to the Exchange Stabilization Fund. The other...
...paltry $1,000,000 when he married Grace Wilson, daughter of a hard driving, onetime Tennessee storekeeper who made a fortune during the Civil War, married off his daughters to socialites. The total value of Mrs. Vanderbilt's was not revealed. She divided a $7,000,000 trust fund between her daughters Countess (Gladys) Széchényi and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, three grandsons and two granddaughters. "The Breakers," her famed home at Newport, and her town house in Manhattan also went to Countess Széchényi. A $150,000 legacy and funds remaining from...
...government bonds which Van Sweringen Corp. sold to Cleveland's Union Trust Co., allegedly for window-dressing purposes, "were bound by indenture" to stay in the vaults of J. P. Morgan & Co." The bonds were not specifically pledged but were part of a fund which the corporation had undertaken to retain in its treasury in the form of cash or marketable securities until its outstanding notes were reduced to a certain figure. The bonds were merely deposited in the Morgan vaults for safekeeping. Van Sweringen Corp. was within its legal rights in selling them...