Word: groupe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richardson swung his plane lower. Haciendas, coffee plantations had disappeared. The flanks of Santa Maria were streaked with wrinkled beds of steaming lava, moving in ponderous streams toward the sea. In the midst of the lava stream a little hill made an island of refuge. On it huddled a group of the same peons who had waved to him three days earlier, men, women, children. They were completely marooned. Inch by inch the lava stream crept higher. There was no possible escape. Even in the plane the heat was almost unbearable...
...That corporations which had loaned money "on call" to speculators had contributed more than any other group to an unsound financial situation because many a corporation promptly called in its loan at the first sign of trouble. Five directors of one corporation threatened to resign last week if their company should call its loan. These directors took the honorable position that having once loaned its money to the stockmarket, the corporation should stand by the market so long as its loan was adequately protected by collateral...
...through its unit, Bank of the Manhattan Co. Last week stockholders voted to change Bank of the Manhattan Co. to Bank of Manhattan Trust Co., and to increase the authorized capital from $22,250,000 to $40,000,000. Manhattan Co. will use its increased capital to enter the group banking field. Some believe, some hope that the laws against branch banking may be repealed, allowing holding companies to become great multi-branched banking systems...
...they go out to their country club to play golf or polo, the well-to-do of Buffalo pass a militant group of stone buildings to which they point with constantly increasing pride as the University of Buffalo. Not many members of the country club are alumni of the University. But in the past decade the University had increasingly entered the country club's consciousness, through the good offices of that potent Cornell alumnus-trustee, liberty-loan driver, reparations expert, friend of Owen D. Young, "double" of Governor Roosevelt, lawyer (Kenefick, Cooke, Mitchell & Bass) and banker (Marine Trust)-Walter...
...nality manifests itself in the three follow-ing life attitudes: 1) New England Puritanism; 2) Negroid Epicureanism, now spreading from rural South to urban North; 3) academic pragmatism (William James, John Dewey) which learns a Western pioneer's and Eastern businessman's view of future and past. In this group belong the Carnegies and Kellers. Optimism affected Businessman Carnegie...