Word: optioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time at a White House function-although his wife's attendance at a White House tea two years ago caused a ruction-Representative Oscar De Priest, Chicago Negro, shook hands with the President, retired with Mrs. De Priest to the East Room, leaving to the other guests the option of speaking to or ignoring them. Mrs. De Priest was gratified when Secretary Lament's wife, a fellow Chicagoan, stopped to chat. Speaker Longworth came over, slapped Mr. De Priest on the back, shook his hand...
Knocked Down. The Commission set up and knocked down various substitutes for Prohibition-as-is. Repeal of the 18th Amendment would be a "backward step" to re-admit the saloon. To permit State option would be nullification. Beer of 2.75% would satisfy nobody who "has developed a taste for intoxicating beverages." Government sale would not be "expedient...
...high prices. The bank is well aware that to sell the stock in the open market would cause it to drop further, hurting the bank's customers who still have loans on the stock. Perhaps the stock is selling at $27. The bank may now offer an option on, say, 20,000 shares to a brokerage firm at $26. The firm receives permission from the Exchange to redistribute that security. Knowledge that those 20,000 shares no longer overhang the market, plus a little inside buying, may send the stock to $31. The firm's salesmen will then...
Both Wets and Drys were satisfied with the new denaturant. Said the Dry Caucus assembled at Washington (see p. 9): "Prohibition carries no mandate to drink and, therefore, if the new denaturant has all the effects of a sea voyage, it is taken at the option of the drinkers...
...proposed class insurance plan, which will appear on the Senior Class ballots tomorrow morning, provides a new option among the methods heretofore offered for the contribution to the class fund. A yearly budget method of preparing for the twenty-fifth reunion has been found both more productive and more acceptable to the majority of graduates than a haphazard system of gifts and contributions. Consequently it must be admitted that whatever method of payment is used, it must become in, which there is a regular and cumulative supply of funds being gathered over a period of years...