Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about the time of Edda's birth Mussolini's journalistic fortunes were changing. Having made a success in Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive...
...weakened people; Germany's state of public health is like that of a country in the last throes of a war of attrition. Such was the burden of medical reports which reached the U. S. last week- by way of Das Neue Tage-Buch, a Parisian anti-Nazi paper, but based on official statistics of the Reichsgesundheits-amt (Reich Department of Health...
...This deal elevated someone new to a dominant position in United: an extraordinary young banker named Floyd Carlisle, who has always been thought of as a "Morgan man," and is today the No. 1 U. S. utility magnate. Carlisle then ran and still runs the St. Regis Paper Co., which happened to own 4,070,000 shares of Niagara Hudson common. By an exchange of stock, United became the largest stockholder of Niagara Hudson and Mr. Carlisle's St. Regis Paper Co. became the largest stockholder in United-owning 2,170,666 shares (15%) against 1,670,000 shares...
Next, United announced that it would write down its $581,285,157 paper assets to $144,528,214. In this $436,756,943 write-off-one of two stupendous deflations of book values in the history of the inflating utility industry*-SEC concurred. Before the year was out United made still another obeisance to Bill Douglas and SEC: it registered as a holding company. In doing so President George Howard announced that United intended to reduce its holdings in its four main holding company investments (eventually to less than 10% of each) that it "has determined to continue...
...seat auditorium of Philadelphia's Chamber of Commerce, 150 well-dressed, solemn delegates met one day last week in the 14th annual convention of the tiniest national group in U. S. finance: the National Negro Bankers' Association. Through the day they listened to many a solemn paper on subjects that the august American Bankers Association might have scheduled: profitable use of FHA mortgages, handling of bond accounts, ways of boosting depressed bank earnings...