Word: lately
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conduct Contrary. . . ." It has long been the custom of the New York Stock Exchange to require financial statements from all member-firms doing business with the public. Late in 1937, apparently eager to beat SEC to the gun, the Exchange extended this rule to firms such as Richard Whitney's which do business with brokers and banks. First report was due on Feb. 15. With his company virtually insolvent. Dick Whitney asked for an extension of time. This naturally piqued the Exchange's curiosity. When the Whitney report arrived, the Exchange scrutinized it carefully and immediately sent...
...Twentieth Century-Fox Producer Darryl F. Zanuck for consistently high quality in 1937 production went the newest & biggest award, an effeminate-looking bust of the late young M-G-M producer, Irving G. Thalberg; to meritorious others, other Oscars, plaques, scrolls. In other years winners were chosen by vote of the Academy members (less than 1,000). This year the chief ones were elected in a poll of 15,000 actors, directors, writers, other eligible Hollywood craftsmen...
...about 400 passengers. The Great Eastern accommodated 4,000- 1,800 more than today's Queen Mary. Forty years ahead of her times, the Great Eastern never paid her way, ended her days as a cable ship. Pride of London's show was a model of the late Mauretania, which held the Atlantic speed record for 22 years, was scrapped...
POEMS-Rex Warner-Knopf ($2). When of late years the Anglo-Communism of Oxford Poets Auden, Spender, Day Lewis broke the ice of post-War English poetry, fellow Oxonian Rex Warner started skating on one of the smaller cakes. More of a country man than an Anglo-Communist, more of an Anglo-Communist than a poet, his best poems are honest descriptions, his worst, honest cant...
...Mitchell mound stall not returning. Ace Varsity hurler for two successive seasons, Ed Ingalls, will be counted on to carry the major portion of the hurling burden this spring. Slim Curtise, who pitched a surprise 4-1 victory over Dartmouth and played a major role in the late-season Crimson wins, is rated as the number two pitcher. Don Prouty, Tom Healey, Yardling twlrier a year ago, Frank Foley, and Lefty Edinberg, Jayvee pitcher, are others who may see considerable action for the Mitchellmen...