Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands on the government. In this close parallel to the Simpson case, the powerful group is not a Cabinet, but two unscrupulous capitalists who covet oil concessions. They are busy installing a puppet dictator as Regis leaves for Zurich to meet Madame St. Aurlon. Feeling responsible for his loss of the throne, she goes into hiding. Regis then becomes a playboy. He cracks up in airplane races, drives a speedboat at Le Touquet, plays polo at Deauville. He takes up with women of the town, fends off U. S. debutantes, begs not to be addressed as "Your Majesty," is called...
Robin Scully '40 and Stanley H. Papner '40, arguing for the negative, decried the loss of amateur spirit and the lowering of academic standards that would inevitably result from "paying a flock of coal miners and country by to play football...
...League of Nations (of which Argentina is a loyal adherent) he said, with a frankness which could provoke no antagonism, that he felt sure he could say the answer was "no." Then a hesitant newshawk in broken English asked the question which left him for once at a total loss: Please, would he relate a small moral anecdote for the edification of the young...
...Cocklin, a bookkeeper, had embezzled $251,000 from the bank's savings deposits, lost most of it in the stockmarket. A descendant of pioneer Vermont settlers, Banker Smith quickly reasoned that $250,000 would seem an almost astronomical figure to frugal Rutland depositors, that publication of the loss might cause a ruinous run on his bank. With this in mind he gently eased the defaulting bookkeeper out hushed up the fraud, charged the loss to surplus & undivided profits. Consequently the bank pursued a serene, solvent course as did Banker Smith and the discharged bookkeeper. Later that year Banker Smith...
...company now has 1,400,000 regular customers and fills about 3,000,000 orders a year. After a loss of $300,000 in 1932 it made $1,317,716 in 1933, $2,749,362 in 1934, $2,331,800 in 1935, and will make an estimated $2,700,000 this year. Spiegel common stock, which faded to 62½? in 1932, was selling last week...