Word: parents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...possibility of bathos and given a certain wistful distinction by Patricia MacMakin, who shows up best in the scene immediately after her rescue, when, naive and self-contained, she discourses on the family failing for falling off things--her father fell off the roof only last week. This same parent (who, it seems, fell on something--something which broke his fall) was given the full distinction which the role offered by Sardis Lawrence, who brought out all the irony, all the spirit, and all the easy-going-live-and-let-live character of Madge's aged and indigent composer-father...
...Ferdinand Pecora's in Manhattan. That quick-witted, onetime inquisitor for the Senate Banking & Currency Committee could undoubtedly recall without recourse to the record at least one parallel case from his rich experience in Washington. Last week stockholders who were suing the directors of Industrial Finance Corp., parent of Morris Plan banks, did receive a decision from bushy-haired New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora. The issue to him was plain...
...Jean) Paul Getty, 43, Oxford-educated spokesman for the Los Angeles Getty oil interests, who let one of his representatives, Harold L. Rowland, state his attitude toward the merger of two Tide Water operating subsidiaries with the parent holding company. Although his father left an estate of $21,000,000, Jean Paul Getty, an only son, had to make his own way in the oil world. In 1920 he was $400,000 in debt, by 1926 was a millionaire in his own right. Early in 1932 he bought a controlling interest in Pacific Western Oil Corp., a rich California producer...
...week after Elections, the week of most colleges' Big Football Game, the week of the National Automobile Show and the last week of woodcock shooting in New England-last week-was American Education Week. For the benefit of 25,000 parent-teacher groups who would inspect their public schools locally during the week, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Langworthy of The National Congress of Parents & Teachers, wrote an instructive message...
...corporation under the Securities Act of 1933. Another $25,000,000 was sold to A. T. & T.'s pension trust fund. Though some of A. T. & T.'s operating subsidiaries have taken advantage of prevailing low money rates to refund their bonds, this was the parent company's first move to shave interest charges on its own $450,000,000 debt. Another $150,000,000 refunding issue is expected before the year...