Word: mops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is a bust of him in the living room, as well as a photograph, a statuette and pair of bookends of him in Mr. Hoan's study. Mr. Hoan is built on the Lincoln line-a tall, lanky, restless Midwesterner with a high twangy voice, a shaggy mop of mouse-colored hair, a heavy mustache. He and Mrs. Hoan go to the cinema occasionally, spend a good many evenings playing bridge, usually with the same neighbor couple. Sometimes plump, jolly Mrs. Hoan plays at the Elks Club. She never misses a Sunday at her Roman Catholic Church. Once...
...boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair. Doris Lee's brush is too kinetic to be good at still life. Her flowers look like artificial ones...
...ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan mop...
...later. The Stedman group objected particularly to substitution for first and refunding bonds of income bonds which would be "little more than preferred stocks under another name." Even more objectionable to it was the idea of allowing Allegheny Corp. to keep a 40% common stock equity in MOP. The Stedman committee wanted the Van Sweringen interest...
Actually, it is not the Van Sweringens who control MOP but a banking group headed by J. P. Morgan & Co. which loaned the Van Sweringens $48,000,000 and took Allegheny stock as collateral. This syndicate has the power to initiate reorganization plans and it presumably approved last week's proposal. But it also has the power to block such plans because it enjoys the status of an MOP creditor, having loaned that company...