Word: robs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whitaker Wright began to float companies devoted to ambiguous enterprises. By intermingling their affairs and complicating their books to the utmost, he was able to rob his investors fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood...
...Stuart's financing of Washington real estate in a burst of oratory, bellowing: "In all the ages the tyrant, political, industrial or financial has been the one to suffer the guillotine; and I now warn the Halsey Stuarts, the Dohertys-I warn them all that their power to rob must cease." This attack was centred upon the Wardman Real Estate Properties Inc. holding company for $28,000,000 worth of apartment houses, office buildings and hotels, including famed Wardman Park Hotel...
...York Live Poultry Chamber of Com merce. Not much publicized are the Better Bedding Alliance of America, the Hickory Handle Association, the South western Peanut Shellers' Association. In the mighty realm of rolling mills and blast furnaces is the American Iron & Steel Institute. To head this trade group Rob ert Patterson Lament last week resigned as U. S. Secretary of Commerce. Presi dent Charles Michael Schwab will retire to an inactive chairmanship...
...retail sales, calculated it would bring the Government two billion dollars a year. President Hoover did not favor it. In March a 2.25% sales tax (estimated revenue: $595,000,000) was presented to the House by the Ways & Means Committee, damned as a measure to rob the poor, defeated...
...happens in a day. Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father...