Word: rule
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers knew to a virtual certainty that the Trondhjemmers' protest will be in vain. The reactionary country folk of Norway whose representatives dominate the Storthing are bent on restoring the almost prehistoric names by which Norwegian cities were called before the fatherland came under the rule of Danish and later Swedish kings, from which it emerged independent only in 1905. Stubborn zealots, the Norwegian rival Deputies changed the Danish name of Norway's capital, "Christiania," to "Oslo." Having changed Trondhjem to Nidaros, they now contemplate changing the names of two of Norway's major ports, Bergen and Christiansund. to "Bj?...
...While good Prince Johann lived, Prince Franz would never have acted this way!" mourned many a grey-bearded householder, and indeed the scandal appeared grievous, for last week His Highness brought home as his wife, to rule with him in Liechtenstein, a mere commoner, Frau Elsa von Eroes of Vienna, with whom he has lived in clandestine, morganatic marriage for the last ten years...
...maxim used to be that a stock should sell, other things being equal, for about ten times earnings. The maxim now says "15 times earnings." This is known as Raskob's Rule, because one day in March 1928, John Jacob Raskob, then finance director of General Motors, walked up a gangplank on his way to Europe and remarked that 15-times was a proper modern ratio-that General Motors ought to have been selling at that time...
Since Raskob's Rule came from a motor-maker, quidnuncs laughingly pointed to automobile stocks as they studied belated earnings reports for the first six months of 1929. Though many another stock was up to 20, 25 and even 30 times earnings, only three prominent motor stocks were selling at "15 times" or more. Many were below the ten times ratio even in the bull market of 1929. The following table shows recent prices of a number of representative automobile stocks and the price they would command at "15 times" according to first-six-months reports...
...publicity and social functions. Publisher William Randolph Hearst's is England. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's are people who will not give him his own way. And a pet aversion of Publisher George Baker Longan of the Kansas City Times is wriggly, writhy, slithery snakes. An unflinching rule keeps snakes entirely out of the Times' pages- out of the news, features, fiction, comics. Other Times rules forbid mentioning or picturing rats, corpses. Journalists wonder: How would the Times report the news if President Herbert Hoover, Col. Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, Scarface Capone or Aimee Semple McPherson were bitten...