Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard and Cornell generally have been favored to fight for the Triangular title with Dartmouth a strong third, but Hellman sees possibilities of Dartmouth taking advantage of its high jump, broad jump and shot put strength to gather a total of 24 points in those three events...
Awarded. To novelist Willa Gather, the first Prix Femina Americain for her Shadows on the Rock...
Members Seeholzer, Sagar, Schmeltzer, Wurzler, Goerz and Robertson used to tip the employes who carry order slips from the telephone booths along the wall to brokers on the floor. Employes often gather up several orders for the same bond at the same time. It is to a broker's interest to get his order first and also to find out the amount of the other orders. Corrupt employes went first to the broker who had tipped him (or tipped him most), delivered his order, told him the size of the other orders. Opportunity for corruption also exists along...
...physical activity in Wall Street, no matter how trivial, is sure to make runners, clerks, bondsalesmen et al. stop and gape. Large groups often gather about a man sawing a board. Last week when truckmen began to unload 60-lb. cases, neatly wrapped in matting, before the House of Morgan, the usual crowd swelled to near-riot proportions. Though the cases were plainly labeled "BLACK TEA-Product of China. Foochow, China," reports quickly spread that J. P. Morgan & Co. had received a huge shipment of gold from the Orient. Guards when questioned muttered: "We don't know nothing...
...Rudyard Kipling -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A LONG TIME AGO-Margaret Kennedy -Doubleday, Doran ($2). A MODERN HERO-Louis Bromfield- Stokes ($2.50). MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY-Nordhoff & Hall-Little, Brown ($2.50). THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). 1919 - John Dos Passos - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). OBSCURE DESTINIES-Willa Gather- Knopf ($2). THE PAST RECAPTURED-Marcel Proust -Boni ($2.50). PETER ASHLEY-DuBose Heyward- Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). THE SHELTERED LIFE-Ellen Glasgow -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). SONS - Pearl S. Ruck -John Day ($2.50). STATE FAIR - Phil Stong - Century ($2.50). THE STORE-T. S. Stribling-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). WANTON MALLY-Booth Tarkington- Doubleday...