Word: retain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Loeb was understood to have selected securities. Firms like Kidder, Peabody; Lehman Brothers; Goldman, Sachs; Spencer Trask; 00 J. & W. Seligman, which accepted deposits largely as an accommodation lor their investing clients, will also continue as brokers, dealers and underwriters. A. Iselin & Co. and Heidelbach, Ickelheimer & Co. preferred to retain their large foreign banking businesses...
...Germany the greatest steel company is the Vereinigte Stalwerke A. G. and for its head it has Fritz Thyssen, king of the Ruhr. It was Thyssen who was Hitler's angel; who, as one move in a battle to retain control of his industrial affairs (dealt a desperate blow by Germany's banking crisis of 1931) began pouring money into the treasury of the Nazis to assure to himself the help of a friendly government. So far, nothing improper; if Thyassen believed in the Nazi philosophy, or the good it might do him, there was no real reason...
...remember of the book describes Dick's effort to refute the doctors' predictions and to retain his self-respect and professional position in the face of Nicole's enormous wealth. Perhaps he might have succeeded if he had not been disillusioned in his love for Rosemary Hoyt, a newcomer to their villa...
...which Van Sweringen Corp. sold to Cleveland's Union Trust Co., allegedly for window-dressing purposes, "were bound by indenture" to stay in the vaults of J. P. Morgan & Co." The bonds were not specifically pledged but were part of a fund which the corporation had undertaken to retain in its treasury in the form of cash or marketable securities until its outstanding notes were reduced to a certain figure. The bonds were merely deposited in the Morgan vaults for safekeeping. Van Sweringen Corp. was within its legal rights in selling them...
Stoutly defended by Socialist Shorter, these murals brought 298 members of Pilgrim Church together one night last week. The pastor's supporters noted many a one who had not entered the church in years. When a vote was taken it was 177 to oust, 121 to retain...