Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the sales had been strictly bona fide, with each man repurchasing his stock at the market. It was up to the Government to prove that they had broken the law against an "agreement, plan or understanding to repurchase." As the hearing got under way the Government's prime points appeared to be: 1) that while Messrs, du Pont and Raskob were exchanging letters concerning their stock deals they were sharing an office at No. 230 Park Avenue; 2) that when Mr. Raskob gave Mr. du Pont his check for $4,582,750 he was drawing directly against...
...make a generous gesture toward a man who did much for England. Yet with an almost vengeful relentlessness he continues to harry Edward, forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor...
This afternoon at 2:20 o'clock Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the Viceroy of India, and the Premiers of all dominions will speak...
Lead-off man in the discussion was President Colby Mitchell Chester of the National Association of Manufacturers, prime salesman of U. S. Business to the Consumer (TIME, Sept. 28). Said he: "You cannot blame Management for expecting a note of responsibility to enter into such [collective bargaining] negotiations. . . . Industry invites-yes, eagerly welcomes-Labor's co-operation in the complicated problems confronting us. But Labor needs to visualize a bit more the predicament facing Management...
Presiding at this year's Sugar Conference in the magnificent Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office, as he had at many another full-size international conference while he was Prime Minister, was hoary old James Ramsay MacDonald. Although the British called the Conference with the hope of stabilizing the world market and relieving them of onerous subsidies to Empire sugar growers, not old Mr. MacDonald, but Special Ambassador Davis steered the meeting off political shoals. While the Big Powers were easily won over to the idea of crop restriction along AAA lines, Mr. Davis and a special committee...