Word: owner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change caused a great ruckus among St. John's men. William Woodward, rich racehorse owner and honorary chairman of Manhattan's Central Hanover Bank, who has contributed more than one-third of St. John's endowment fund, promptly resigned from the college's finance committee. So did Sylvester W. Labrot, the committee's chairman. Friends of the Board of Trustees said that strongwilled, patrician Dr. Gordon had failed to "cooperate," that he had coddled rich students, snubbed and tyrannized others. But Gordon friends declared his lack of cooperation had been chiefly in a stand against...
...evening was so nightmarish that when, 24 years later, he was invited to attend President Taft's inaugural ball as a guest, he flatly refused. That year he was living on a 350-acre estate next to John D. Rockefeller near Tarrytown, N. Y. and was virtually the owner of a $15,000,000 grocery business...
...Bill. Summoning the senior partners of the biggest wire houses, he outlined the bill's high points. Soon the private wire systems flashed to managers and resident partners in 1,200 branch offices messages like this: "National Securities [Exchange] Act is a matter of grave concern to every owner of real estate or securities, to all officials of corporations or banks. . . . It is no exaggeration to say that very few of your friends or clients can afford to disregard this new menace to national recovery. . . . Please discuss it with others and urge them to acquaint themselves with some...
...requires every director, officer or owner of more than 5% of any class of a listed security to file . . . at the time of listing or when he becomes a director, officer or such owner of securities and also within ten days after the close of each calendar month in which there has been any change in the amount of such securities owned by him, a statement indicating the extent of his ownership. . . . It further prohibits any director, officer or such owner . . . from purchasing such listed security with the intention . . . of selling the same within six months. . . . From selling such listed...
...week was to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with every small businessman in the land. The Stock Exchange president was sure that he had a case which could win countless little fellows over to his side - the man with the small tool factory in Indianapolis, the owner of a little cannery in California, the proprietor of Grand Rapids' biggest department store. Each of these little corporations had stock which was unlisted on any exchange. The Exchange Bill, as Mr. Whitney wanted to tell each small businessman, made this stock ineligible as collateral for loans either...