Word: prospective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With these three reforms a prospect for the coming academic year, and the solid beginnings which the Faculty Council has made already history, students in the College may hope for a beneficent and progressive continuance of the policies so happily inaugurated...
...prospect of a hot contest for the presidency of the New York Stock Exchange disappeared just before election last month when Richard Whitney decided not to seek official renomination for a sixth term and refused to head an independent ticket (TIME, April 15). He did, however, consent to become a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. Many an Exchange liberal was surprised when Broker Whitney polled 1,146 votes for Governor, 15 more than the vote which elected Charles R. Gay to the presidency. Last week Governor Whitney was elected chairman of the Committee...
...instability in the foreign exchange market, and probably increase the number of players in the game of blind man's buff, now limited to secretly-operated committees in America and England. Foreign trade will dry up into an even smaller trickle than it is at present. The only cheerful prospect is that when the currency-tampering disease becomes well-night universal, all afflicted nations will have to seek an immediate, cooperative cure, and that no insolent rejection of stabilization pleas will be heard from an administration which in 1933 told the London Economic Parley that we were going along...
That Dr. Carmichael was swapping a president's chair for a dean's without the prospect of something higher seemed unlikely to most observers. No secret is it that old Dr. Kirkland would like to resign and devote more time to raising his prize iris blossoms, famed among Tennessee horticulturists. Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael looked like nothing so much as Vanderbilt's next chancellor, the man who will put a new educational pattern into effect...
...with Mr. Weber's withdrawal last week, came a profound, if involuntary, break in Allied's tradition of secrecy. Directors announced that application would be made for permanent listing under the Securities & Exchange Act-a move that requires full & complete disclosure of almost every corporate secret. Prospect of having his salary (once reputedly as high as $780,000 per year) or his stockholdings spread before the Public, may have hastened Mr. Weber's retirement. Alternative to Allied listing was to have its 2,400,000 shares banished to over-the-counter trading...