Word: joel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diamond men reviewing these statistics last week had every reason to be well pleased. Of these none should have been more so than Solomon ("Solly") Barnato Joel, ringleader and probably richest of the tycoons who form the Diamond Syndicate which, as everyone knows, controls the price and production of almost all the world's diamonds. But though Solly Joel may well have rejoiced in his 1929 profits he could not have forgotten that less than a month ago his Diamond Syndicate was ordered by the British Government to pay ?350,000 to a suing company. No matter how rich...
...Adopted a resolution appropriating $300,000 toward restoration of the frigate Constitution ("Old Ironsides"). ¶ Passed a bill raising Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone, physician to President Hoover, to captain's rank and pay. ¶ Passed a bill to put interstate bus traffic under the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Like its predecessor, this book is a collection of Bible stories told in darkey dialect, with darkey psychology, darkey embellishments and modernizations. Sly, humorous, kindly, they are reminiscent of the late great Joel Chandler Harris's tales of Uncle Remus. A sample: "So Solomon started kingin' up and down de road, a-bowin' and tippin' his crown to de ladies and makin' riddles at de men folks, and he was a mighty good king...
...bullish item last week was an extra dividend by National Lead Co., together with profits of $10,000,000 against $6,000,000 in 1928. But in the statement of Lead's president, Edward Joel Cornish, were bearish notes. Sales of babbitt metal, of which this company is the largest manufacturer, dropped 35% in December and 45% in January, compared to a year ago. Since babbitt metal's chief use is in factory wheels, it is evident that the wheels have slowed...
...John H. Arnold, first librarian of the Law School; are by E. C. Tarbell. The painting of Ezra Ripley Thayer, '88, Dane Professor of Law and Dean of the School 1910-15, is by I. M. Gaugengigl. At the left of the fireplace is a marble bust of Joel Parker, an early Royall Professor of Law at the School, who had previously been Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Hampshire; the bust is a recent gift from...