Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...changes in policy: 1) to help small enterprises float security issues, SEC eased registration requirements for issues of $100,000 or less, reduced the amount of information necessary in small registrations; 2) to aid businesses which are unable to get credit under existing banking rules, Franklin Roosevelt signed the Glass Bill permitting RFC to make $1,500,000,000 in loans of any size to anybody for any length of time...
...controlled by Chesapeake Corp., a holding company which owns 35% of its common stock. Chesapeake Corp. in turn is controlled by Alleghany Corp., another holding company which owns 71% of its stock. Last year, after the Vans had died, the chief backer of their declining years, 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...
...GLASS HOUSES-Carleton Beals - Lippincott...
...last week Franklin Roosevelt issued a call to his first-line spending lieutenants: Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley and House Leader Sam Rayburn, fresh from his humiliation over the failure of the Reorganization Bill, Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins, Acting Budget Director Daniel W. Bell, Chairman Carter Glass of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Chairman Edward T. Taylor of the House Appropriations Committee. These met for a White House conference this week. Meantime, Congressional spadework and broad hints by the President in his press conferences and elsewhere during the week had roughed in the three sums to be provided...
...late Charles Flandrau (Viva Mexico!) was a star Saturday Evening Post contributor 40 years ago, one thing mightily depressed him. That was the changes that took place in his stories when they appeared in print. If he gave one of his characters a highball, the drink became a glass of lemonade. In those days a Post character might kill Indians, but he could not smoke a cigaret. Last week a collection of 22 stories chosen from the 234 published in last year's Saturday Evening Post revealed how greatly they had changed since that genteel period. Post characters...