Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...danger. This was the chance western promoters had been waiting. Schmeling was still champion outside of New York. Why not a title bout in Chicago? Sidney Strotz of the amateurish Chicago Stadium Corp. tried for it but could not close the deal. Chicago has no other promoters above the level of John ("Mique") Malloy and James C. Mullen, with whom no important fighters now do business. Outmaneuvering Strotz, President Carey of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Corp. quickly revived the Garden's Illinois subsidiary which Tex Rickard had used in 1927. A bill to legalize bouts of more...
...obvious that he is representative of no temporary fashion in the art of this country, but of its enduring quality, and when he exhibits such canvases as the most recent of those in the present exhibition he is lifting its standard to a new and higher level...
Prophecy. "From the banker's point of view," said Mr. Warburg, "I do not hesitate to say that within a few years hence the level at which some of our securities sell today will look . . . incomprehensibly low . . . even though one might anticipate a year or two of reduced dividends...
...developed minds of students seeking entrance to Graduate Schools. The system has been tried at law schools and found wanting. It was found that the questions of the trained lawyers who gave these test did not yield satisfactory results. Their professional attitude hindered them from reaching a proper level for the raw applicant, as yet unschooled in the legal point of view...
...There was a lower house of representatives of employes and a senate made up of representatives of the foremen, overseers, second hands. Plant problems were handled in parliamentary fashion. In spite of the hard times which struck the textile business three years ago, the Fitzgerald mills maintained a wage level averaging 10% higher than any other Southern plant...