Word: mightly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might interest you to know that this Company, having a capital of three hundred and fifteen million dollars and a surplus of approximately one-quarter of a billion, has no bond issue, preferred stock or bank loans ahead of the common. The stock of this Company is, by the way, considered in the West our leading prime investment...
...looked as though a Fenn bill might actually be reported out of committee before the holidays. But last week a new obstacle was presented. Five members of the Census Committee sent word they had the influenza-Washington's Johnson, Pennsylvania's Swick, New York's Jacobstein, Michigan's Clancy and White of Kansas. Wisconsin's Peavey and others were out of town. Without a quorum the committee could not act. For the umpteenth time Reapportionment was postponed...
Last June, President Coolidge announced that he was advised there might be a Treasury deficit of 94 millions in fiscal 1929. When Congress met this month, President Coolidge announced he was now advised there might be a Treasury surplus of 37 millions in fiscal 1929. Six days later, President Coolidge announced he had been re-advised, that the Treasury had underestimated by 75 millions the amount it would have to pay in tax refunds. The Treasury was thus seen facing a deficit again...
...didn't he do it? I do not know, but . . . after the fourth of March he might not have the chance...
Three times now George Gershwin has set foot over the line that divides formal and informal music; three times taken his own jazz notions, compounded them seriously and presented them, not for any singing or dancing they might invoke, but for listening purposes only. First was the Rhapsody in Blue and with it much talk of "classical jazz" gospeled by Paul Whiteman. Then came the Concerto in F, but by that time Gershwin had become a creed with many and the Concerto had its premiere in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall with Walter Damrosch and his New York Symphony...