Word: handiwork
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continent between- Bank of America in San Francisco and Bank of America in Manhattan. His successor as Transamerica's chairman, Elisha Walker, soon sold the Manhattan pier to National City Bank. From the depths of his retirement Amadeo Peter Giannini, growing mightily alarmed over the future of his handiwork and his name as No. 1 branch banker of the U. S., emerged in an historic proxy battle to regain control (TIME, Feb. 22, 1932). Last week Transamerica published its annual report for the first full year of Giannini management since the interregnum. Profits were up from...
Convicts left behind spotted the handiwork of Clyde Barrow, notorious outlaw-at-large, said he fired the machine gun, suspected the horn was honked by his woman, gun-toting, cigar-smoking Bonnie Parker. Next day posses bagged only one flown jailbird. Convict J. B. French, panting a few minutes ahead of prison bloodhounds, ran for refuge into the cabin of a Negro farmer. The Negro covered him with a shotgun, held him until bloodhounds bayed at the door...
Although no one at Gimbels would credit the idea to any individual, all admen recognized the handiwork of Kenneth Collins, high-priced publicist who quit Macy's last November, was soon hired as assistant to President Bernard Gimbel...
...bill to compel "full publicity and information" on security issues was the handiwork of Democrat Huston Thompson, onetime chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. It was largely patterned after Britain's Companies Act. Five years in jail and a $5,000 fine awaited the crooked U. S. stock promoter or corporation official who today must be caught by the roundabout charge of "using the mails to defraud." The proposed legislation did not make all stock issues foolproof but it did attempt to divide investment sheep from speculative goats. When House hearings started on the measure during the week, Representatives...
...councilmen's action was not prompted by civic piety or pride in their own handiwork. A woman had protested her sewer assessment because the ordinance authorizing it had been advertised, not in a daily newspaper as required by the city charter, but in the city's own weekly City Bulletin. Last week Ohio's Supreme Court upheld her. The ruling invalidated only the sewer ordinance, but Cincinnati's entire General Code had been enacted in 1928 and the City Solicitor foresaw other protests...