Word: safe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aware that in contests for a public office," 21-year old Kerins thundered, "there are political opponents who seek to ride the surfboard of public indignation to the safe and secure shores of public office. Important issues are often obstructed and made obscure by this type of political barnacle...
...Through Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, the President told Congress "it would not be safe" to let his powers to alter the dollar's gold content and to continue the $2,000,000,000 Exchange Stabilization Fund expire June 30. He asked extension of both to Jan. 15, 1941 (five days before the next President will be inaugurated...
...most of them at power stations, gas works, water reservoirs and public buildings. Police who rushed to the spots had no trouble figuring out the cause. A number of unexploded home-made bombs were found. They had been made from batteries, alarm clocks and gelignite, a gelatin dynamite or "safe" explosive favored by British safecrackers...
Nine years later, when old John Blair was laid in his grave, a 15-year-old stripling named Hearn Waters Streat went to work for Blair & Co. as a runner. While Blair & Co. built up a reputation as the first firm to make equipment trust certificates a safe investment, and as co-financiers of Western Pacific, Missouri Pacific and many a big industrial concern like Texas Co., genial Hearn Streat moved up through the ranks. He became a junior partner in 1920, same year Blair absorbed William Salomon & Co. In 1929, when Blair merged with the security affiliate of Bank...
...Fund, endowed by a member of the Class of 1872." Only the income may be used, but there are no other restrictions as to use of the money by the Law School. Although it is not known how the bequest will be invested, it would seem to be a safe prediction that the income will amount to at least $20,000 a year and probably more...