Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Testifying before SEC last month, Edward H. H. Simmons said he had known that his former fellow Exchange Governor Richard Whitney had used cash belonging to the Gratuity Fund, but had not thought this significant enough to report to the Exchange because using customers' cash was general practice among brokerage houses. SEC regarded this assertion as remarkable, ordered the Exchange to look into the matter...
President Roosevelt promptly remarked that he was glad to hear of this olive branch and Bill Douglas, making his first comment since the Supreme Court upheld the registration provision of the Holding Company Act last month, declared in Electrical World: "We do not expect every utility system to present us immediately with a revised map showing revamped, integrated systems. Nor do we propose to draw such a map. ... the statute is not a 'death sentence.' On the contrary it holds the promise of a long life and a happy one. It substitutes order for chaos. ... We are ready...
Last week neat, genial Joseph H. Nuelle was elected president of Delaware & Hudson Co. to take the place of untidy, scowling Leonor Loree, who retired a month ago. Mr. Loree had run Delaware & Hudson since 1907, same year that Joe Nuelle (pronounced Nelly) started work for New York, Ontario & Western. While Mr. Loree was maneuvering Delaware & Hudson into a national prominence not strictly deserved by its present 847 miles of trackage, Mr. Nuelle was persistently working his way up from assistant engineer to principal assistant engineer to engineer of maintenance of way to chief engineer to general manager to president...
...first time since mid-March The Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices moved upward. High-grade bonds continued a steady improvement begun six weeks ago. The stock market after a 1½ month long irregular rise notable even in the depressed railroad and public utilities, stood still-but odd-lot traders, who have been buying against the trend, suddenly switched to selling...
...readers remember the pioneer farmers of fiction. For one novel of the calibre of Elizabeth Madox Roberts' The Time of Man, Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth or Hamlin Garland's Middle Border stories, a thousand others appear and are forgotten within the month they are published. A few, like Ruth Suckow's novels of Iowa farm life, are praised but little read...