Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unusual requests are frequent occurrences in the life of a newspaper, but last night a Harvard man of '28 came through with the month's tops. He wanted clippings of every item containing the result of a Harvard-Yale encounter in which his Alma Mater came out victorious. "Anything will do," he asserted, "from football games to chess clashes...
...Month ago, when Robert Young asked for the proxies to prepare himself for the Chesapeake meeting, Guaranty refused to give them. Instead it announced that it planned to appoint three "impartial" directors to the Chesapeake board to break the deadlock between Young & Kirby...
Bradley & Murphy. Month ago desperate Robert Young went to Judge Coxe's district court in Manhattan, got a temporary stay restraining Guaranty from exercising voting rights on Chesapeake Corp. stock on the ground that before the end of the 30-day period of grace after the Feb. 1 appraisal the collateral back of one bond issue momentarily went above the 150% figure and also on the ground that Guaranty was acting in bad faith. Judge Coxe later refused a permanent injunction, so resourceful Robert Young appealed to Judge Manton of the Circuit Court of Appeals, got another temporary stay...
...holding company now being renovated as an investment trust, controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles. In June 1936 at a court receiver's sale Occidental bought Federal Reserve Life Insurance Co. of Kansas City and last year acquired Guaranty Life Insurance Co. of Davenport, Iowa. Last month Occidental started negotiating with Sears, Roebuck & Co. for the purchase of Hercules Life Insurance Co. of Chicago (TIME, April 4). Last week this deal was called off. Reason given by President Carl L. Odell of Hercules: "Public opinion seems to be against removal of assets . . . so far from Illinois...
...average and better-than-average detective stories last month, four stood as best bets. In order of merit...