Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determined to keep out of the next. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, France, Switzerland's neighbor on the west, assured her that her neutrality would be kept inviolate. Last week she received the same assurance from her other two neighbors, Italy and Germany, Europe's major nonLeague powers...
...Began moving in on the investment trust business. With the security exchange and the utility industry both come to heel, SEC's next major move is the long-awaited regulation of investment trusts. After three years' study, SEC last week sent Part I of its report to Congress, will send other installments this summer, later recommend legislation. Largely a survey of the field, Part I produced the following gloomy statistics: 1) since 1929 assets of investment trusts have shriveled from $7,000,000,000 to $3,700,000,000; 2) of 1,272 investment companies existing...
...entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development in deposit banking in the last quarter-century...
Henry Ford attends board meetings four times a year. Dearborn's schools are greatly influenced by his ideas. For not only do he and the Ford Motor Co. pay the major part ($1,075,499) of the city's school taxes, but he has an intense interest in education. Today, Henry Ford has a hand in the schooling, according to his own theories, of some 20,000 U. S. children, about 12,000 of them in Dearborn and the rest in dozens of other schools which he owns or supports. Chief centre of his experiments is Greenfield Village...
...Beverly Hills mansion. But she remains unchanged, continues to charm everybody with her full-blooded Bowery simplicity. As with Author Brinig's other novels, the most remarkable thing about May Flavin is that it is offered as further confirmation of Author Brinig's emergence as a coming major novelist...