Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, as the big U. S. banks issued their year-end statements, Mr. Fraser's First National reported 1938 earnings of $10,865,199, a fraction below 1937's $11,246,747. Others (given in thousands...
...more than a month Wall Street and Washington have heard that roly-poly Howard Hopson, kingpin of $1,038,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric Co., was so ill he was under an oxygen tent. Since Mr. Hopson has often been "ill" when the Government wanted him for hearings and investigations of his fabulous operations, many a cynic wondered whether the utility magnate's latest indisposition was a portent of further trouble...
...urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...
...away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver half-drunken lectures to their children; elderly spinsters of gentle birth talk hysterical nonsense to impressionable youngsters; young girls creep through the wisteria vines to meet lovers their parents will not accept; young men split their minds trying to make sense of the hodgepodge of Southern traditions, gossip...
...clause in Mr. Cobb's will establishing the Fund, referred to Professor Washburn as a "learned and greatly beloved professor, who rendered eminent services to the School by long years of devotion to its interests. By his method of instruction, noble character and ever-friendly encouragement, he was an inspiration to his students to a remarkable degree, and, though half a century and more has passed since then, yet his memory is still treasured in a affection by those once members of his classes who still survive...