Word: hear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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National Credit Corp, Not till late Tuesday did Wall Street hear of the impending "Little Congress" meeting that night (see p. 9). The President needed assurance of political as well as banking co-operation before he told the country his plan. When he secured this shortly after midnight Tuesday, the National Credit Corp. had assumed definite form and the public was appraised of a 500-million-dollar fund (later enlarged to a billion) to function as a stepping stone between the slough of the ordinary bank and the lofty security of the Federal Reserve. National Credit Corp. was quickly formed...
Living and thinking in a pious refuge apart from the world is abhorrent to the tenets of Jewish theology. Judaism is social, believes celibacy to be unnatural and contrary to divine will. Because of this, people were surprised and dubious last week to hear that Irene Palasty, Hungarian Jewish musicomedienne and dancer, had proposed to establish in a quiet Hungarian village a nunnery for 300 Jewesses "who seek refuge from worldly affairs...
...what better purpose could surpluses be used than in the maintenance of dividends thereby creating goodwill and confidence of stockholders. I have always advocated that policy and believe that the American Smelting & Refining Co. will continue to maintain the dividend now." Eight days later Smelters shareholders were chagrined to hear that the directors had ordered a 25% reduction in the dividend?from $2 to $1.50 (against $4 early this year). Either upon returning to his office President Guggenheim had seen figures much poorer than he expected, or else the Smelters directorate, ten of whose 25 members are employes...
...country girl. As the sun climbs through the heavens they all get older, see each other on rarer and rarer occasions. Susan marries, so does Bernard; Jinny is having too good a time, Neville is too homosexual; Louis and Rhoda are lovers for a while. When you hear Bernard's final speech they are all well along in middle-age; Rhoda has killed herself; the sun has set. The effect of The Waves is less like that of a novel than of an epic; the plane in which the whole narration moves is more like poetry than prose...
...Harvard there are certain traditions. There is Reinhardt, that last, and lingering remnant of the late nineties. The Vagabond loves Reinhardt as a brother. It is comfortable to hear Freshmen leaning out of their windows of a balmy evening shouting his name as though it were something altogether new and entertaining. There is also indifference. There is the Yale tradition. And there is the Radcliffe girl...