Word: namee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Realty. Concerning an unspecified number of shares in General Realty, Mr. Broun claimed that he is "wholly in the dark," having purchased common stock on a tip from a friend whose advice was based on the preferred. Mr. Broun was, therefore, unaware that the full name of his company is General Realty & Utilities Corp., that it is a holding company for real estate and for public utility stocks. Thus far (it was incorporated in January, 1929), General Realty has functioned chiefly in the realty field, holds 100,000 shares of Thompson-Starrett Co., and has as yet engaged...
...Francisco Railroad. Mr. Broun described his St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad holdings under a caption "the Gate Called Golden," and flayed San Francisco as a foggy city. "Our terminals," said ignorant Mr. Broun, "don't appear attractive." Mr. Broun apparently was misled by the railroad's name. For the St. Louis & San Francisco does not come within several hundred miles of San Francisco, its western extremities ending in the western portion of Texas...
...public may nominate for the Hall of Fame any of its heroes, provided they have been dead 25 years. The names are considered by a New York University Senate. If two Senators approve of a name it goes to a nation-wide committee of electors, which includes no N. Y. U. officials. The names which receive at least three-fifths of the votes are thereupon inscribed in the Hall...
...clubmen, bewildered, decided to hang ten British landscapes. U. S. and British professors, amused, wondered if there were 400 students in the U. S. or England who could so much as name ten famed Japanese...
...Liberal Club, a recognized student activity, intended to hold a forum on the Mooney-Billings case in California,* received University permission to hold it in Alumni Hall. Then Pittsburgh's Chancellor John G. Bowman decided and declared that the Club was using the University's name to propagandize. He revoked the permission. Sociologist Harry Elmer Barnes of Smith College, who was to have spoken in the hall, agreed to speak anyway, anywhere. The Liberal Club found a vacant lot for its meeting. For holding the meeting at all, the club was abolished...