Word: parents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except Major Gwilym George. Megan Lloyd George, though she was far younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly...
...They had intended to buy, at 109 marks ($26) per share, some 54,500 shares in Henry Ford's German company. With this company, as with his other continental subsidiaries, Mr. Ford had intended to keep 60% of the stock in the hands of Ford of England, the parent and leader of his European family. The other 40% he was to distribute among German citizens. Inasmuch as stock in the other Ford companies had invariably enjoyed a rapid rise from its offering quotation, Berliners felt confident that a log-mark share would soon be selling...
...Conductor Kerlin was killed in a railroad wreck; Louise brought up her younger brothers and sisters. Dresser's songs had had some success and he helped her to a job in vaudeville, let her use his name. Later she sang with Weber & Fields, Raymond Hitchcock, William Collier; played parent roles in many pictures, notably Mother Knows Best...
Rediscount Collateral. The fourth and final main argument of Mr. Simmons was the somewhat startling suggestion that the Federal Reserve System (the twelve parent banks) be allowed to rediscount stock market loans. Stock market securities are not accepted as collateral at the twelve Reserve Banks, which must make their loans on government or open market paper. But, maintained Mr. Simmons, the supply of restricted securities on which the Federal Reserve System can make loans is rapidly dwindling. The government is paying off its national debt at the rate of a billion dollars a year, and "in 15 years there...
Products of the new company can be described only in many pages of chemical formulae. Its Frankfort parent has a long list of products ? a list roughly comparable to that of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc. Chief among these products...