Word: profit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quietly discharged by appointment of a small group of the judge's friends as receivers. A judge's old law partner may likewise be overfavored with such assignments from the court. A good Federal judge scatters his receiverships; a bad one uses them for political or personal profit...
...banking of assets is another method whereby U. S. judges may profit in bankruptcy cases. Deposits can be made in a bank in which the jurist has a private stock holding. He collects the interest rather than the creditors...
...situation is made all the more difficult by the die-hards of the United States senate, and the authorities of Geneva, who do not wish to deprive the Court of power by complying with American requests. But they also know that they would profit by the membership of the United States. This gained, without disrupting provisions, the Kellogg pacts would be of actual significance. That would be happily received at Washington...
...Professor Cabot made the following statement: "It is wholly to the interest of the public that some private concern have a monopoly of electric power. This concern is not in a position to exercise its control to the injury of the public. Men who are working for their own profit have, by the very nature of things, more interest in their job than men working for the government." He believes that the power monopoly can and does benefit the people, and this he is confident he can prove this afternoon...
...balls and bats constitute no major portion of the Spalding company's present production. In 1892, A. G. Spalding & Bros, acquired Wright & Ditson and A. J. Reach, sporting goods companies, and put itself in an almost monopolistic position to profit from that trend in U. S. life which was to add the football stadium to collegiate architecture and golf .to the businessman's routine. Had the famed football player who wished to die for dear old Rutgers realized his ambition, a Spalding ball would have been found under his corpse. The first Davis Cup tennis matches (1900) were...