Word: paid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This maudlin hocuspocus, together with far too much stunting and propagandizing, slows down the tempo of the show to a very ordinary invalid's walk. If the fabulous invalid survives, it will be thanks more to its own constitution than to the ministrations of Broadway's highest-paid, by-appointment-only play doctors...
...finance the deal, the Nickel Plate floated $20,000,000 in 6% notes due in 1932. But when the notes matured, the Nickel Plate was losing $4,000,000 a year (it earned $7,000,000 in 1929) so the road paid 25% of each note in cash, got a three-year extension from the noteholders for the rest. In 1935 things were no better and the maturity date was again extended...
...owners promptly leased the right of way to Michigan Southern R.R. Since 1914 New York Central has leased the property, which now forms part of the Central's main-line track between Toledo and Jackson (Mich.). And while the Central has ceased to pay dividends, Erie & Kalamazoo has paid a dividend on its common stock as regularly as most railroads now apply for RFC loans...
...headed by an E. A. Pierce & Co. partner named Jerome Chester Cuppia, who, although he still sports the waxed mustache of the '90s, is in 1938 a member of more exchanges (14) than anyone else in the U. S. Way back in 1930 Jerry Cuppia suggested a paid president for the Curb, but he might as well have proposed to move the Curb back outdoors. His continued pressure for reform finally got him in so bad with the Old Guard that it blocked his re-election as a governor early this year...
Last week the reformers finally forced the Old Guard to capitulate and offered a plan genuinely patterned on that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting officially this week, showed their sentiments by accepting the plan 275-to-1 in a straw poll which was still incomplete at week...