Word: obviousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Transamerica Corp., the vast holding company which sold its interest in Bank of America (Manhattan) in 1931, sold working control in Bancamerica-Blair to San Francisco Financier Ashby Oliver Stewart, who is now chairman of the board (TIME, Dec. 26). Obvious choice as active head of the firm was hard-working Hearn Streat, not only the employe with the longest service but credited in Wall Street as the underwriter with the widest acquaintance in the business. Last week he became vice chairman of the board and chairman of the executive committee. Simultaneously, Bancamerica-Blair resumed (subject to stockholders...
Aside from war, the most obvious threat to continued industrial recovery seemed to lie in the possibility of overproduction such as brought on Depression II. Rising commodity prices would probably herald such an event and last week they were only slightly above the four-year low set last month...
...their meals. There is already a section of the law exempting, employees of educational institutions but under a technicality this does not cover fraternity waiters. Thus undergraduates working for Morrow Cafeteria and the fraternities eating there are exempt while the other fraternity members have to pay, creating an obvious incongruity. The act further provides for a gradual increase in this Old Age Insurance Tax to six percent by 1948. To meet these payments fraternities will be forced eventually to cut down on either wages or jobs, hurting those who most need financial help. Thus is higher education encouraged...." --The Amherst...
...Vile Bodies, Decline and Fall) achieved immediate and continued success, reviewers had not tired of telling readers to watch Alec. Last week, with his thirty-first book, Going Their Own Ways (Farrar & Rinehart $2.50), 40-year-old Alec Waugh was i promising writer still. But it had long been obvious that he would never be as good as his model, John Galsworthy...
Galsworthian technique-thorough rubber-necking at upper-middle-class lives -is at best photographic, kaleidoscopic; at worst trite, futile, obvious. One of Alec Waugh's characters testifies against the author on page 263 (not yet the end): "Her marriage had become like a novel on whose two hundredth page the reader, foreseeing the climax, can only remain inquisitive as to the actual means by which the ultimate unravelling is to be achieved...