Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they put a rope round her neck and hauled her down to make room for the New York Life Insurance Building, while a group of mourners including Elder Statesman Elihu Root and the late George L. ("Tex") Rickard stood bareheaded in the rain. Sentimentalists were comforted by an announcement from the insurance company that Diana would not leave New York. She would be presented to New York University as soon as $65,000 was raised to build a proper tower for her to stand on. That was seven years ago. Elder Statesman Root took charge of the building fund, Diana...
Professor Frankfurther of Harvard has recently quoted a passage from John Maynard Keynes that goes to the root of the matter. 'It seems clearer every day', writes Mr. Keynes, 'that the moral problem of our age is concerned with the Love of Money, with the habitual appeal to the Monday Motive, with the social approbation of Money as the measure of constructive success...
...Scott & Byrne pondered the matter. Partner Russell Wilfred Geyer investigated, found that market conditions were still impossible. But he had a smart idea, and last fortnight ground for Duluth Steam Corp.'s plant was broken. Partner Geyer realized that many construction firms have much cash, no business. The root of his plan was selling $1,500,000 worth of one-year 6% notes to the companies who would do the construction work and supply equipment-in other words, paying them in paper. At the end of the year market conditions may make a public offering of bonds possible...
Birthdays. Louis Maurer, last surviving artist of the staff of Currier & Ives, famed print firm, 100; Elihu Root, 87; Charles Michael Schwab...
...Luxembourg Gardens, close by the alley where bad-tempered old gentlemen play frenzied croquet every Sunday, a new Punch & Judy show was operating last week with the consent and approval of the Senate of the French Republic. For years the root-te-tooting of the Luxembourg's Guignol has been supplied by a marionettist known as M. Brioché. Recently elderly M. Brioché rang down his little curtain for the last time and died...