Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Salomon, of whom two?Percy and Herbert?are still alive and at the head of the firm, Salomon Brothers & Hutzler has always been known largely as a dealer in Governments, municipals, high-grade corporate bonds, bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue was placed last week without...
...disappeared from Cartoonist Harold Gray's strip and the adults associated with her have engaged in a riot of skulduggery. Two villains, Claude Claptrap, a popular demagog, and J. Gordon Slugg, financier, have emerged to harass Annie's foster-parent, Daddy Warbucks, who continues to be a model of industrious honesty. He has begun to market a remarkable new building material when Slugg and Claptrap rouse a mob to burn the factory and kill the inventor. That crime ruins the enterprise and Daddy Warbucks. Daddy behaves with restraint and fortitude, saying only, "Slugg's a crook...
...81st Field Artillery. In 1926 the late Oscar W. Underwood, disgusted with Alabama politics, announced his retirement from the Senate. Unknown Hugo Black was the dark horse in a five-man primary for the Underwood seat. Without any prominent support, he put on a wrinkled suit, climbed into a Model-T Ford, stumped the State, sleeping with any farmer who would put him up, speaking at every crossroads store, saying the right words to win Ku Klux Klan support. That year, a low in Alabama politics, Ku Kluxers helped put Hugo Black in the U. S. Senate...
...week set up a new division, with Coordinator Eastman as temporary chairman, to work out regulations pending organization of a Bureau of Motor Carriers. What the ICC regulations will be like was clearly indicated at the Congressional hearings on the Motor Carrier Bill. With the Michigan statutes as a model, the ICC promised to work out Federal regulations fully as drastic. Michigan requires daily records and monthly reports, "reasonable" rates, a maximum speed of 50 m. p. h. for buses, 35 m. p. h. for trucks. It prohibits standees in buses, smoking or drinking by bus drivers on duty, prescribes...
Devereux, posed for the young drummer boy (TIME, May 9, 1932). The model for the elderly drummer was the artist's father, Rev. Samuel Willard. The bandaged fifer was Hugh Mosher, Civil Warrior, who actually fifed all the time he was posing...