Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While baseball fans chased such hypotheses round in circles, Dizzy Dean's old teammates, the irrepressible Gas House Gang with whom he has been cavorting ever since he entered big-league baseball, were plainly grieved. But General Manager Branch Rickey sounded the curt keynote of the front office: "The Cardinals will now be a 23-player club, not a Dizzy Dean club...
...number of basing points. This meant that when the Government asked for cement bids, the figures were almost always identical even to the fourth decimal point. Calling this practice price collusion at the expense of the consumer. Franklin Roosevelt tried to halt it with NRA, through the Attorney General's office, and finally through the Federal Trade Commission, which has been investigating cement for ten months. Impatient of results, Mr. Roosevelt last month directed that all Federal departments buy their cement through the Treasury's procurement division, that bids be restricted to an f. o. b. basis, that...
...York Attorney General's office last week began hearings on the dealings of the Wall Street firm of Prentice & Brady, which began voluntary liquidation on April 1. Partners Sartell Prentice and Jerome C. Brady refused to testify, but their cashier stated that the firm had been guilty of "over-hypothecation" of customers' securities, that no customer had sustained a loss...
First skirmish occurred even before the "babes" bought control of Alleghany. In planning this purchase, there was originally a syndicate including General Motors Executives Donaldson Brown and John Thomas Smith, the former having large holdings of Alleghany preferred stock...
...secretary respectively of both Alleghany and Chesapeake Corp. Last summer, when Robert Young proposed to eliminate Chesapeake Corp. entirely as an unnecessary corporate entity, these four opposed him. In December, when C. & O. President William Johnson Harahan died, they also opposed Robert Young's decision to elevate longtime General Manager George Doswell Brooke to the presidency. Instead they proposed that President Charles Eugene Denney of Erie R. R. be given...