Word: genial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when they shudderingly recollected the amazing confessions dragged from Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Morgan on the same stand. While Mr. Clarke could not compare with Mr. Wiggin in the variety and scale of his operations he nevertheless did quite well in his own small way. In 1929 the genial Harvey organized the General Theatres Equipment, Inc., to take over the business of six subsidiaries. The book value of the stock of the six companies was $4,759,000. Mr. Clarke felt this to be insufficient and naively marked it up to $43,044,000, which netted...
...because the loan is repaid in regular instalments, the borrower pays about 17% for the money that he actually uses. But that is better than the 42% of personal finance companies and a far cry from the loan shark to whom the sky is no limit. Last week the genial, oracular founder of Morris Plan Banks released a bigger & better Morris bank plan...
...hearted stab at a problem which it has confessed to be important, then it ought to secure the part time services of an expert in this field. A University can render hardly any greater service than the prevention of misfits; and the helpful guidance of men into the most genial careers...
...from 1920. Untrained as merchants, railroadmen believed that the traffic they had lost to the automobile, airplane and bus was lost for good & all; fare-cutting would merely reduce what little passenger revenue they still had. Early this year President Whitefoord Russell Cole of Louisville & Nashville, a big, genial, iron-haired gentleman from Kentucky who is generally the voice of the Southern carriers, tested the ancient law of price-cutting. Passenger traffic spurted upward. Soon a few Western roads slashed fares. Great Northern announced that local passenger traffic jumped 50%. Meeting in Chicago last fortnight the Western Association of Railway...
...upper classes. With the enrolment limited to 300 and an average of only seven students under each professor, Haverford honors will be available to all. The new plan was lavishly saluted during the centenary celebrations last week, notably by Dr. William Wistar Comfort, president of Haverford since 1917, a genial, highbrowed classicist and cricket-player whom the students call "Uncle Billy" and whose precept has been: "Improve the breed of college men by a selective process...