Word: preference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...August 7 issue to fill out a column. By the weirdest chance this second letter attacked Sir George for attacking Catholicism: Didactic, Semitic, would-be letter -writer George Turner should learn that in the art of good journalism lies the avoidance of tautology. His very being would de novo prefer Islam and his statement of such fact is redundant. Exasperated, Sir George again sued hapless, tautological Cavalcade and has just settled for 5,000 of the dollars Cavalcade can ill spare. "Even our solicitors," said flabbergasted Editor Brittain, "looked at me queerly when I told them the facts...
...prefer your usual recipe which has the sentiment boiled out. A meaty, appetizing dish of facts seasoned with shrewdness & balance-presidents, popes, abdicating kings, all, even Toscanini, served up without...
...counter trading there is no fixed brokerage commission as in the exchanges, and dealers generally charge what the traffic will bear. Most o-t-c dealers prefer to sell as traders because the "spread" between what they paid for a security and what they sell it for can be far greater than are most commissions. In both cases, however, customers have little means of telling whether they are quoted a fair price or charged a fair commission...
...buying and selling huge blocks of securities. On the New York Stock Exchange, sale in one deal of $10,000,000 in bonds would cause tremendous speculative excitement and price fluctuation. On the o-t-c market, it passes unnoticed. Secretive firms, loath to disclose their finances, also prefer to have their securities traded on the over-the-counter market rather than on the exchanges. Banks and insurance companies are almost unanimously o-t-c patrons because they fear published fluctuations in their stocks might alarm depositors and policyholders...
...attempt to trap etching-collectors into self-betrayal, applicants are asked, "What are your interests and hobbies?"; and, "Would you prefer a girl that shared them...