Word: holde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most discussed musical arrival was Clemens Krauss of Vienna and Frankfort, one of the Continent's outstanding maestros, on his way to be guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For luggage Conductor Krauss carried the latest novelty from Vienna, a specially constructed suitcase of aluminum and steel to hold music. Customs officers, prodding through his possessions, caused him annoyance by discovering some 250 dutiable cigars. Friends soothed him with the assurance that among Philadelphia's concertgoers is many a person able, alert and eager to send a distinguished new guest conductor some good cigars...
...wealthy Eastern dioceses. Both have had troubles, recently, in managing their churches. The Manning troubles centered about the resignation of Dean Howard Chandler Robbins (TIME, Jan. 14). Many Robbins-supporters believe that the Dean resigned because Bishop Manning, with whose high-church views Dean Robbins did not entirely hold, was "autocratic." Bishop Garland in Philadelphia is not "high church." But last week, many a Philadelphian, pondering the parallel, wondered if it was not a fear of "autocracy" that was keeping potential young coadjutors away from Philadelphia...
...commercial career includes a period of collecting bad bills for a book store and of filling lamps in Pennsylvania R. R. offices. Mr. Hockenbeamer works incessantly, golfs indifferently, smokes continually (large, strong cigars). He was an originator of the idea that the general public should be invited to hold stocks in utilities. In 1914 Pacific Gas & Electric had 3,000 stockholders. It has some 50,000 today...
...this same investor could not purchase even a single share of Manhattan's First National Bank, which last week rose 1,200 points in two days and reached a quotation of $7,300 a share. As George F. Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit of 24 million dollars. Meanwhile shares in Chase, Equitable, and many another Manhattan bank also enjoyed sensational rises. The bull movement in bank stocks was based on the official ratification...
...Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other 40% was to be sold to citizens of the countries concerned. It is said, however, that Mr. Ford was shocked and grieved to find that U. S. brokers had gobbled up a large portion of his Ford of England stock...