Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday the Cornell crew rowed to a victory over Syracuse and M.I.T. The race was run over a short course and would not mean a great deal one way or the other, except that M.I.T. was left six lengths behind at the finish Line. The Harvard crew only registered six lengths itself against Technology...
...fact that, economist or no, he has little technical knowledge of finance, moved Wall Street to try to head off his appointment, may move some Senators to oppose the confirmation of his appointment. The fact that he was named to succeed Chairman Bill Douglas on SEC does not mean that he will automatically become its chairman. Legally, SEC elects its own chairman. How much opposition to his confirmation develops may depend on whether assurance is quietly given to the Senate that SEC will elect as chairman some one else, such as Commissioner Jerome Frank...
...hurry to get to Parliament House in Canberra one day last week. The United Australia Party was meeting there to choose a leader to succeed the late Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons (TIME, April 17), and Mr. Menzies had reason to think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with his arm in a sling and was at once chosen leader...
...loan made by 16 Manhattan banks started the corporate wheels moving. Then Stockbroker Richard Whitney, now of Sing Sing, a man of no mean financial daring, took over as chairman of the Bond Sales Committee, set out to sell $27,829,500 in 4% fair debentures. But by February 1937 only $20,000,000 of the bonds had been sold and Grover Whalen had to pull a high-pressure stunt out of his black fedora. With the greatest of ease Maestro Whalen invented the Terrace Club, purportedly swank dining & wining place on the fair grounds, with a membership restricted...
...Tonkinese sweatshop swollen-eyed children were making "real French lace." On the wall hung a picture of Rockefeller Center. Much puzzled was the factory owner to learn that Mr. Rockefeller did not live alone in the Center, that there were other inmates. At last he comprehended: "Oh, you mean Monsieur Rockefeller's concubines...