Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University tournament last spring who have come out for boxing this winter are T. J. Curtin '34 in the 115-pound class, Leslie Williams '33 in the 125-pound class, R. R. Borden '35 in the 135-pound class, R. R. McGoodwin '34 in the 145-pound class, Herman Gross '33 in the 155-pound class, K. N. Simonian '34 in the 165-pound class, and A. D. Robertson '34 in the 175-pound class...
Large creditors centered some hopes last week on a writ served in Stockholm on Ernst Kreuger, the 80-year-old father of Scoundrel Ivar, and other directors of his collapsed holding company, Kreuger & Toll. The writ charges Father Kreuger & Directors with "gross negligence," accuses them of letting Scoundrel Ivar do with the company whatever he liked, seeks to collect from the Board of Directors damages equivalent to the losses of Kreuger & Toll. How great these losses are, accountants who have been ferreting & figuring ever since last spring were still unable to say last week...
...know that I ever before told about this happening but I tell it now simply to illustrate the gross inaccuracy of the statement made by Senator Blaine and to cite one example of perhaps many, where members of Congress take advantage of the immunity given them, to make false and reckless charges, either for the purpose of injuring their enemies or to glorify themselves -and perhaps as a cheap means to gain notoriety...
...greater authority on finance and legislation but whether directness and frankness is more likely to put us on the road to economic recovery than their Pollyanna statements and hiding the truth. . . . There's nothing the matter with the finances and credit of the U. S. except gross mismanagement...
...public debt retirement, interest to general operating expenses of the Government. Last April Alfred Emanuel Smith proposed: "Let us say to the nations who owe us money that we will forget all about it for 20 years and will write off as paid each year 25% of the gross value of American products which they buy from...