Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astutely. Stocks of his numerous holding companies were sold to the public but control of the two companies at the top of the pyramid remained with him and John Isaac Mange, president and later chairman of the system. Mr. Hopson, shrewd mathematician, invented many complicated kinds of securities for sale to the public. According to the Federal Trade Commission, Associated Gas & Electric Co. has or has had (the system changes so often that A. G. E. can generally catch in error anybody who ventures to describe it) three classes of common stock, six classes of preferred, four classes of preference...
...public press affords ample proof that alliances between Americans of either sex with titled foreigners are fraught with peril and almost invariably end in disaster. ... It is not a source of satisfaction to see our marriage institution and our courts made mere incidents to the purchase and sale of foreign titles...
...getting portrait commissions. This procedure came to its inevitable finish when in 1657, at the age of 51, he was officially declared bankrupt. Saskia's kinsmen had got in time's nick a second mortgage on the house, to safeguard Titus' depleted legacy. At the forced sale of Rembrandt's collections, the prices bid were under what Dutchmen were accustomed to bid for paintings. He saved his etching plates, however, and got a little money for himself from the sale of prints...
...shops, boiler rooms and the sell-&-switch racket are for the first time up against toothy Federal laws. But the downright crook is not so annoying as the shady dealer operating on the frontiers of legality. Last week Director of Registration Bane cracked down with a stop-order suspending sale of stock in a Tulsa concern called Wee Investors Royalty Co. Wee Investors proposed to sell its stock on a chain-letter basis. In the studied understatement of Mr. Bane's phraseology the proposition appeared to be "misleading." And last week Counsel Burns obtained injunctions against two security dealers...
Depression pushed Cosden Oil Co. into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...