Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pull up a chair' unless you are asked...
...which he conducted the Walker hearings. . . . What impresses me most about [his] western speeches is the quality of judgment they display. He has talked as concretely as any candidate I know of and yet he has driven very few pegs into (lie ground that he will have to pull out later with his teeth. ... I shall vote cheerfully for Governor Roosevelt. That this means voting also for Mr. Garner does not add to my pleasure, but I can endure it when I think of Mr. Curtis. . . . Should Mr. Hoover be elected there is no chance now in sight that...
...audit of Middle West did not list its assets at market value, obscuring the company's actual condition. The receivers last week seemed to feel that better conditions and good management might enable it to pull through, with the possible lopping off of the eastern properties. Grover C. Neff, chief operating executive of Wisconsin Power & Light Co., was made president of the company last week. The report showed that Middle West indulged in huge security operations, chiefly attempts to support its own stock. It made large gifts to subsidiaries to enable them to "write down" losses, also loaned them funds...
...number of companies. Last week there were five such units being offered, four containing 25 securities, one 50. On purchase the securities are registered in the buyer's name and delivered. Pirnie, Simons says that at first the store was thronged with curious shoppers, but that now long-pull investors are flocking in. On a typical day last week Package No. 1 at the store was offered at $258. The market value of the securities in Package No. 1 on the same day was $210. Pirnie, Simons generously offers to buy back securities within one year without charging commissions...
...indignation soon found a spokesman in the New York Sun. Cried the Sun: ''Well, those English can pull our legs at peace conferences, do us in the eye in disarmament treaties and help Europe cheat us out of War Debt billions; they can call us dollar-chasers, jazz maniacs and Prohibition hypocrites, but they can't call our robin not a robin and our grey squirrel...