Word: parente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tripped by the same deal which had sent to Sing Sing Bernard K. Marcus and Saul Singer, president and vice president respectively of the bank. This particular deal was but an infinitesimal segment of a ring-around-a-rosy scheme to have certain affiliates pay off loans to the parent bank, involving five distinct series of transactions among six subsidiaries and two dummy corporations in various combinations and andry permutations. Two questions were involved: 1) Was the deal a crime? 2) If so, had Counsel Kresel willfully aided & abetted the deal...
Ernest Eden Norris, having retired as receiver of Mobile & Ohio R. R., was made operating vice president and a director of the parent Southern...
...make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some of the banks are controlled by Morris Plan Corp. of America but most of them are autonomous local institutions in which the parent company has a minority interest. Because 6% interest on the whole sum and an investigation fee (usually 2%) are deducted from the loan when made and because the loan is repaid in regular instalments, the borrower pays about 17% for the money that he actually uses. But that is better...
These observations led to two of Dr. Morgan's unimpeachable genetic discoveries: 1) Lying in the rodlike chromosomes of the germ cells, like links of sausage, are ultramicroscopic units (genes) which transmit individual characteristics (say, brown eyes) from parent to child. 2) When the chromosomes of the two parents mingle in the egg (which ultimately becomes their child), the genes do not mix helter-skelter but "cross over" in groups. That is why, for example, in Drosophila, black body color tends to be inherited with purple eyes, vestigial wings, and a speck at the base of the wings...
...department:--"Ladder 1 is now 14 years old, and probably the city will purchase another before the building is ready... If the football gate receipts in the Stadium hit a new high, Harvard, according to rumors, may play the role of proud parent and give one to the city. That, of course, has to be 'Hushed' just now." ......Boston Globe, copied by Cambridge Tribune...