Word: losses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey Vandyke in short, sharp jerks, Superintendent Gerling saw his fear come true early in 1933. Two of the smaller State banks in St. Louis failed, tying up $96,000 in school deposits. Promptly Dr. Gerling pledged $25,000 of his own savings to make up any possible loss and "prevent the children from losing faith in their elders who encouraged the savings...
...they should, took to the courts. Last week the Missouri Court of Appeals decided they should not. That meant that student depositors, who have been paid a preliminary 20% by one bank, 55% by the other, stood to receive about $55,000 when the final distribution is made. Their loss would be about $39,000. Last week Superintendent Gerling, so popular by this time that the school board recently tried in vain to make him accept a $6,000 raise in salary,-* said his pledge of $25,000 was still good. By week's end he had received...
...Croix de Guerre and the Distinguished Service Medal during the War, John Reed Kilpatrick was put in as president of the Garden in 1933, has been bucking Colonel Hammond ever since the latter became board chairman. Last year Madison Square Garden did not run at a loss as it did the year before. That it has nonetheless lost most of its prestige in pugilism is due largely to the efforts of Rickard's onetime right-hand man, Ticket Speculator Mike Jacobs, who this year set up, with Hearst newspaper backing, his Twentieth Century Sporting Club, which has no indoor...
Should Richard and Henry Ames have died in an ordinary manner, their deaths would have come as an irreparable loss to Harvard; but the acts of heroism with which they gave up their lives make their story a living force for their College...
...revolution when the Prince de Condé first met his appalling mistress. The last of his family, weak, lazy, amiable, vicious, the Prince "had gained nothing from his very distinguished birth but the melancholy grace that marked his tall person, and long, slightly sheeplike face." In addition to the loss of his estates and honors, the revolution had cost the Prince his son, and most of his ambition. In 1814 his enormous wealth was restored to him and Sophie, whose influence was then uncertain, followed him to Paris, endured rebuffs and humiliations, waited, wrote cunning letters and cherished...