Word: itemization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the Yale men are going to hold a dinner (war or no war). That is all right, but the thought of a united body of Yale men openly disapproving of Albert H. Wiggin, however adequate as a publicity device for a reunion dinner, is too sombre an item for us to have to begin our day on, in this blossom-scented sanctuary of topical despair...
...punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute item in a frog...
...command performance at London's Palladium Music Hall, George V and his Queen clapped enthusiastically when 50-year-old Sophie Tucker, appearing as a "Surprise Item," bellowed: Some of these days...
...roundly damned the report as misleading propaganda in favor of the Stock Exchange Bill. But in his haste to expose Mr. Pecora's errors, President Whitney, too, fumbled his statistics. Referring to brokers' capital losses, which were not included in the report, he declared that "one single item would wipe out" the total operating profit for all years except 1928. What Mr. Whitney had done was to calculate the decline in the total value of 1,375 seats on the Stock Exchange from $625,000 in 1929 to $130,000, the present value. This calculation assumed that each...
...fortune was in stocks. He invested in but two bond issues-$2,000,000 in 31% Liberty Loans, $50,000 in Bear Mountain-Hudson River Bridge$8. His real estate holdings were less than $800,000; his life insurance, $85,802. Among his securities the largest single item was 14,000 shares of Manhattan's First National Bank, which he headed for 54 years and which has earned big money more consistently than any other bank in the U. S. The Baker holdings were appraised at $2,900 per share (current price: $1,680), making a total...