Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, as Shawnee got ready to file its petition for a grand jury to investigate Sheriff Harrington's regime, the local county attorney started action to challenge the sheriff's right to hold office. He also asked Oklahoma Governor Raymond Gary to help clean up bootlegging and gambling in Shawnee, and the FBI began an investigation to see if Reporter Bradshaw's beating was a violation of federal civil rights laws. As a result of its belated expose, the News-Star had also learned a lesson: the campaign to clean up Shawnee should not have waited...
Last Dec. 8 and 15, the New York Stock Exchange ordered its member firms to ask customers why they were buying stocks. Of the odd-lotters, 72.9% were buying for long-term investment v. only 53.5% of the round-lot buyers. Only 7.5% of the odd-lotters planned to hold the stocks less than 30 days, compared to 17.5% of the round-lotters. Apparently because they were buying for investment, the majority of the odd-lotters (70.6%) bought their stock outright rather than on margin, compared to only 43.0% of round-lot purchasers...
...increased to 1,911,493 by the end of 1954. Meanwhile, the number of stock buyers under M.I.P. has grown to 30,000 in a year. Brokers say that most of those who are buying stock, either through investment trusts or M.I.P., plan to hold them for long-term growth and dividends...
...really rather commonplace, but in him Kramer has fashioned a figure of unheroic reality, the moral goldbrick constantly leaning against war's back door. We Shall March Again reaches a telling climax as the spokes fall out of the German war machine. Fuzzy-cheeked youngsters try to hold positions that crack divisions could not defend, commanders cannot reach the Führer because he is dillydallying at his own birthday party. But these vivid vignettes cannot quite redeem the novel's major flaw-that its men whine louder than its bullets...
Saturday the squad travels to Amherst to meet the Lord Jeffs, who tied for the Little Three championship with Wesleyan this year. Although Amherst's season record shows eight losses against nine victories, the Lord Jeffs hold a 1-0, 11-inning decision over Yale, which defeated the varsity, 8-2, in the squad's final pre-exam contest...