Word: investable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side in a war is NOT a question of helping the weak, or righting the wrong, or being humanitarian and sending ambulances. It is a question of sanctioning the participation in the war of commercial and industrial interests which will in time (it took form 1914-1917 last time) invest so much capital that we, the citizens, will have to go to win the war to save...
Paramount among the Commission's objectives as explained by Landis, are improvement of corporate practices, subordination of the role of speculation in national life, and making the investment process intelligible to the investor. Its reports aim not to give financial advice, but to furnish a means for the buyer himself to invest intelligently...
Much as it might like to, the public cannot possibly invest in big security underwriting houses like Morgan, Stanley & Co., Kuhn, Loeb & Co. or Lehman Brothers...
...help them. Norma, more modest, does better, lands a job as Rosmer's secretary. In Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money he gave them to invest in a musical, they insure his life for a million dollars. Thus is created the master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina...
...pinkish metallic veined stone so rare that it may no longer be exported from Italy. Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude for the Beaux Arts and a big, ivory marble head for the Musee du Luxembourg's foreign section...