Word: p
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Still appearing in London newspapers' want-ad columns, however, are advertisements of homes in "safe areas," installed with A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) devices. Banks, insurance companies and business concerns continued to buy houses in the country for emergency offices. Latest to arrange for, although not to buy, a country place for its staff and records is Lloyd's, insurance brokers...
Queen Wilhelmina gave her aged favorite a free hand in forming a new Cabinet, but the Catholics would not cooperate and an alliance between Anti-Revolutionaries and Socialists was unthinkable. After three tries he gave up. The Queen asked conservative Catholic Dr. Dionysius A. P. N. Koolen to see what he could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament...
...handled almost every type of windjammer from the 15-footers he used to sail off Oyster Bay in his undergraduate Harvard days to the big Class J boats Vanitie and Weetamoe he skippered in the America's Cup trials in 1920 and 1930, after he had married J. P. Morgan's daughter. Once he had gone around the Horn-from New York to Honolulu-in a square rigger...
...years' experience is desirous of job. Has worked as reporter, copyreader, rewrite, book reviews, dramatic critic, war correspondent, sports writer, columnist and briefly as publisher. Of neat appearance, although labor agitator. Not sure of recommendation from present post. No reasonable offer will be refused. Address Mr. X., P. 0. Box 521, Stamford, Conn...
Conservative banking houses like Morgan Stanley & Co. (divorced underwriting half of J. P. Morgan & Co.) and Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have held themselves coolly aloof from competition for security issues. Their position is that terms reached in direct negotiations with a single underwriter, thoroughly familiar with the financing company, are more likely to be best for borrower and investor than those that come out of a fierce competition among a group of bidding underwriters. Competitive bidding, they hold, "tends to overpricing the issue . . . and to subsequent dissatisfaction and losi of credit and good will of the borrower...