Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pere Marquette, the I. C. C. refused as regarded the Erie. Seeing they were getting nowhere, the Van Sweringens decided to set up a master holding company that would bring together all their railroad interests till such time as the roads could be consolidated. Hence, Alleghany Corp. Into this pot they poured in 1929 all their rail stocks. They took in exchange 2,500,000 common shares and a 15-year option to buy 1,750,000 shares at $30. To pay off the loans which had been pyramided in making their acquisitions they sold 1,250,000 shares...
...competing with the young folk and of out-smarting them. In the course of events he shows what a chivalrous fellow he is by rescuing from a sharper the children of his old rival thereby uniting the firms and making peace and prosperity the lot of all. The pot-pourri contains a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a lot of George Arliss. In Russia it will be correctly appraised as capitalistic propaganda, but the men who made it never thought of that, nor had they ever heard that there is in the cinema an art which...
Five new members were elected to the Dramatic Club as the result of acting and technical work done in connection of "The Watched Pot." Shingles were presented by Robert Breckenridge '34, president of the Club at a party given in Boston for the candidates who took part in the play...
...Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than 25 books. Broad-shouldered, ruddy-faced, unaffected, Walter de la Mare looks less like a poet than most poets, more like a sea-captain. Unclubbable, retiring, he lives in London's suburbs with...
...Beat Bradley and take the pot" is one of Louisville's axioms for the Kentucky Derby. Col. Edward Riley Bradley, who makes his money out of his Palm Beach Casino and breeds his racehorses at Idle Hour Farm, near Louisville, had, from 1920 up to last week, won the Derby three times and finished in the money two other times. Last week the axiom seemed a little less pertinent than usual. Col. Bradley's Burgoo King won a year ago but this year his only entrant was a horse called Broker's Tip who had failed...