Word: petted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Messrs. Smith & Raskob had indeed been members of a syndicate to buy stock of their pet little Manhattan bank, County Trust Co. In fact they had been members of two pools. One dark Friday in November 1929 President James J. Riordan of County Trust had shot himself to death in his home. "We, with the help of Governor Smith, were able to keep the news of his unfortunate death from the news papers until Saturday noon when the bank closed," related Mr. Raskob. President Riordan's suicide had nothing to do with the bank but the directors were fearful...
Dark, filthy, insanitary city stink-holes were one of President Hoover's pet aversions. During his administration the R. F. C. voted $1,500,000,000 for loans to 'limited-dividend housing corporations for the building of light, airy modern apartments. Slum clearance is also dear to the heart of President Roosevelt. When he set up the Public Works Administration under Secretary Ickes, a part of its funds was to be used for city housing. To date $46,219,958 has been allotted for that purpose. But bankers with delinquent mortgages and landlords with vacant property have doggedly...
Deere Wiman, producer). If Johann Strauss was looking down last week from his waltz-heaven he was probably scandalized at the way little Helen Ford (Dearest Enemy) laced herself into a high old-fashioned corset, powdered herself suggestively and came forth to pipe his pet coloratura aria with comically fluttering eyelids and exaggerated soubrette wiggles. But these things supplied the few bright intervals in this latest of many versions of Die Fledermaus. The plot is the same old one : a rich, stuffy Viennese (Tenor George Meader), sentenced to a week in jail, first takes an evening off, goes...
...week the only holders who objected publicly to the plan- George Le Boutiller & wife* of Ridgefield, Conn.- turned in their $5,000 of B. & O. bonds. Meantime another and more fearsome ghost had risen to plague Daniel Willard. Last spring Boston's crusty old Frederick Henry Prince, whose pet aversion is professors in Government and whose fortune is chiefly in railroads, turned up in Washington with one of Wall Street's smartest statisticians and a plan to merge all U. S. railroads into seven regional systems (TIME, April 10). Because it involved firing 300,000 railroad employees...
...When a pet black bear near Albion. N. Y. killed a child last year (TIME, Oct. 24, 1932), a New York law, effective last month, made lack of "due care" in protecting the public from animals a misdemeanor. In 1923 Connecticut outlawed the use of wild animals for soliciting alms or contributions. A 1927 amendment forbade roadside animal exhibits for commercial purposes...