Word: grouping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were annoyed. When, year and half ago, the committee sponsored a pro-Loyalist speech in St. Louis by an allegedly unfrocked Irish priest, Michael O'Flanagan, St. Louis' Catholic Club and Archbishop John J. Glennon were more than annoyed; they demanded that Dr. Fleisher resign from the group of sponsors. Dr. Fleisher disavowed responsibility for the priest's remarks, refused to resign. Last week, as Dr. Fleisher was bounced out of the University for "His sponsorship of a [Father O'Flanagan's] lecture," the American Association of University Professors bounced in, started an investigation...
...Each year the S. P. C. C. has to care for many girls under 16 who are victims of rape, incest, compulsory prostitution. One investigator studied 1,400 rapings of children, found the biggest group were girls in the sixth grade...
...downtown terminus. This would cost another $6,000,000, and the whole project would be handed to the Cincinnati Street Railway Co. for operation of its cars. The transaction would be without rent, which the company is nable to pay. Face to face with this apparently insoluble situation, a group of leading Cincinnatians resolved last week that something must be done about the city's hole-in-the-ground. Last week they met at the Sinton Hotel, organized as theMetropolitan Transportation and Subway Committee, stoutly resolved to settle the question once...
...Harrison Williams emerged from an Ohio bicycle factory to try his hand in Wall Street. In 1906 he helped splice a group of Midwest and Southern utilities into American Gas & Electric Co., six years later created another holding company, Central States Electric Corp. Central States presently got working control of North American Co., itself a utility holding company, whose total assets today are $900,000,000. By 1924 Mr. Williams held 96% of Central States' stock. By 1929 its shares had been split 60-for-1, the value of a single original share had risen from...
...Transport & Trading Co. the most powerful oil company in England. They fought Standard Oil for a market in China, won it in spite of the millions of kerosene lamps Standard gave away. By this time Deterding was director of the combined companies, now known as the Royal Dutch-Shell group. For the next decade he busied himself grabbing up oil properties in Venezuela, Mexico, California...