Word: rr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Voice gliss.) Who-oo-oo? Ww-wh-er-rr? Wh-aa-aa-t? (Doorbell rings) Newspapermen ring doorbells...
...Francisco, stands the pillared portico of Crocker First National Bank, a rich, conservative institution that is something of a landmark in West Coast banking. It was founded as a private banking house in 1883 by the late Charles Crocker, one of the quadrumvirate that built Southern Pacific RR.* He wanted to leave his son a bank. Son William Henry Crocker began as a clerk, was made president ten years later. Meantime the bank had taken out a national charter, and for the next 40 years prospered exceedingly on the best West Coast accounts. In 1926 it gained more fat accounts...
...half of them are owned by a few big insurance companies like Metropolitan Life ($6,852,000), Prudential ($3,000,000), New York Life ($1.300.000). Its junior creditors are not junior bondholders but the RFC ($3,000,000). Railroad Credit Corp. ($1,300,000) and Western Pacific RR Corp...
...cleared for Havre and Hamburg. Official civic celebration marked the sailing for she was City of Baltimore, first transatlantic passenger ship to be documented out of Baltimore since the clippers, first sailing of the new Baltimore Mail Steamship Co. formed last year by interests including Baltimore Trust, Pennsylvania RR., Roosevelt Steamship Co. On Oct. 15 the line will begin a weekly transatlantic freight-passenger-mail service...
...around the world, playing golf, meeting people. He found leisure boring and the Fox company thought this play, which it had on file, would give him just what he wanted to do. He wears corduroy breeches, a mackinaw, and a woodsman's boots and cap. He hums "The Rr-hiver Shannon" and when, with his broad brogue, he asks "What's the matter with Al Smith?" the audiences in Democrat towns start clapping. The picture is a comedy which critics passed off with an indulgent phrase or two when it was given as a play on Broadway last...