Word: seated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mails. Marcus Garvey knew he was a leader but followers were getting harder and harder to find. Some one pointed out the British Parliament to him. He was a British subject and automatically eligible for election. Last week he announced that he will move to England to contest a seat...
...Scotland was struggling to preserve its Presbyterianism, establish free trade with the English colonies, seat her peers in the House of Lords. But in a lonely castle on Maxwelton's hillside the year's real problem was a pretty, dark-eyed girl who fancied she loved a rakish soldier. The girl was Annie Laurie. The soldier, one Willie Douglas of Fingland, wrote verses to her, offered to lay himself "doon an' dee." Annie Laurie's parents locked her in her stone-walled bedroom until she stopped her mooning, sadly consented to marry respectable Alexander Fergusson...
...Morgan reported only their modest income from commissions, not their underwriting and banking income. Lehman Brothers, which is primarily a banking house, reported $12,000,000 profits for 1928 and 1929. Obviously, the bulk of these profits had nothing to do with the fact that the firm has a seat on the Stock Exchange. In the same manner Goldman, Sachs & Co. reported a profit of $6,681,000 in 1928, $7,900,000 in 1929, only to be followed by a thundering $9,000,000 loss in 1930. Mr. Pecora failed to compare brokers' profits to brokers' capital...
...statistics. Referring to brokers' capital losses, which were not included in the report, he declared that "one single item would wipe out" the total operating profit for all years except 1928. What Mr. Whitney had done was to calculate the decline in the total value of 1,375 seats on the Stock Exchange from $625,000 in 1929 to $130,000, the present value. This calculation assumed that each & every member paid the all-time high for his seat, which by no means all had done. Despite sloppy statistical work, Mr. Pecora's report afforded the first sweeping...
...Davies [Acton Davies, onetime dramatic critic of the New York Sun] who had a rather high pitched voice, uttered a scream that must have been heard as far as Burlington, Vt. Mrs. Bates [mother of Actress Blanche Bates], a very intrepid lady of Milesian extraction, stood on the seat in the boat and beat the water with her parasol. . . . Colonel Mann shouted, 'Good God, what is it?' through his whiskers...