Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most dailies outside Chicago and New York, the lot of the financial editor is unenviable. He has to take much of his material secondhand, may have to compete with syndicated columnists on his own page, usually sees his big local business stories played on the front page. Only a few financial editors have built up a personal following. Best-established in San Francisco is John Stackhouse Piper of the Scripps-Howard News. Born in Caribou Me. 39 years ago, he crusaded last year against the realty reorganization racket, oil royalties, "boiler rooms," bucket shops...
Time came to transport the thousands of record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...
...disconcerted by the three trouncings received at the hands of Wittenberg, Toledo, and Ohto State during the vacation, Coach Wes Fesler feels that the trip was a complete success in that the team learned a lot of basketball from superior opponents. In a preliminary game at 6.30 o'clock, the two Freshman aggregations will meet in what promises to be a close, exciting tilt...
...stage Phil Spitainy leads an orchestra of "glorious girls," whose number seems to hover between forty-eight and sixty, according to various advertisements. Be they all glorious or not, and whatever their number, they can make a powerful lot of noise, particularly in the trumpet section. However, some of the arrangements are excellent, as is the harmonizing vocalization. This department would like to recommend to your careful consideration a soloist with a flower in her hair and a nice set of pipes (not the music-goes-round-and-round vocalist, who, incidentally, is not bad at her stunt...
...Brockway, onetime vice president of Mack. Hardly had he had time to hang his hat in his new office before he was confronted with a strike, which was peacefully settled after Mr. Black bought the picketers balls, bats and gloves, set them to base-balling in a nearby parking lot. White's Black has not lifted the company out of the red, but he is on record with the prediction that White's 1936 production will top the Wartime record by 10,000 units. One of the ablest merchandisers in the industry, he is credited with having boosted...