Word: huff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receivership a fortnight ago, the company sought to have its five Manhattan banks (Chase National Bank, Central Hanover Bank, Manufacturers Trust, New York Trust, Chemical Bank) reach a standstill agreement on their loans of $20,000,000. When the receivers failed to accomplish this they resigned in a huff. The action means that the bulk of the Eastern part of the great utility system has been lopped away, will probably break up. Middle West Utilities is almost certain to lose most of its $40,000,000 investment in the common shares of National Electric. Many Eastern bankers and utility tycoons...
Knowing the charges were being made against Updike, recently the Farmers National applied for membership, was denied it on the grounds that it was a corporation, hence ineligible under a rule passed in 1929. Upon the refusal. Rev. Clarence Elmer Huff, president of Farmers National, asked Secretary of Agriculture Hyde to cancel the Board of Trade's license as a futures market. Secretary Hyde said he would withhold expression until after the Updike case was settled. Angry at the way it was settled, George Sparks Milnor, general manager of Farmers National, last week said the Government would be urged...
...TIME, Jan. 18). Handsome Adolf would have to think twice before ousting the man who might end Germany's "economic slavery" (Bruning), and four or five times before opposing the "Idol of the Fatherland" (Old Paul). From his conference with Chancellor Bruning Herr Hitler stalked in a huff...
Fascist Hitler left in a huff. Canny Brüning had put him in a tight position. Old Paul is Germany's idol. Should he refuse the Bruning request, Fascist Hitler would be accused of repudiating the idol. If he agreed, he would see himself diddled out of his great chance to seize the government legally. Stormed Hitler lieutenants...
...treasury anywhere from $45,000 a year (for little nations like Costa Rica or Liberia) to $450,000 a year (Britain, France and other great powers). Five years ago frugal Costa Rica decided that even $45,000 was more than a League membership was worth, withdrew in a huff when she was dunned for nonpayment of dues. Mexico thought it was worth while. Fat Foreign Minister Genaro Estrada, who surprised his friends last year by marrying a Mexico City socialite, cabled formal acceptance to President of the Assembly Nicolas Titulesco. The message contained a carefully wrapped lemon...