Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Three years ago Edouard quarreled with Edouard. M. Herriot's luck had turned. He had lost in succession both his second Prime Ministry (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926) and the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies. He was losing his grip on his party (Radical Socialist). Edouard Daladier saw his chance. With sly intrigue and ruthless, slashing, open vituperation he routed his patron at the Party Congress two years ago, seized the Presidency of the Radical Socialists for himself. After all there are some 20 party groups in France. Outside his own Edouard Daladier remained only a vaguely familiar name...
...Plum companies. At last he demanded what had been done with his pistol, was told that the police had taken it, seemed vexed. Since his doctor prescribed sleep he was left alone. Stealthily he rose, painfully dragged himself to a cupboard where he had secreted another pistol. Merciful, the second bullet brought Death to Harald Plum...
...second time that Mr. Mitchell had arrived in Manhattan on the wings of panic. He took his first Manhattan job (with Trust Co. of America) just in time to cope with the Panic of 1907. He arrived home from Europe last week, just in time to utter bullish reassurances on the eve of the crash...
...Eaton intends to put in the long-discussed super-steel-merger. Mr. Eaton, working with William Gwinn Mather and Otis & Co., sponsors of Continental Shares, Inc., is supposed to control enough steel companies to enable him to form a single unit that will challenge Bethlehem's position as second biggest U. S. producer. Until plans for this consolidation are completed, it is probable Mr. Girdler will advise the Eaton group on technical matters and stock activity. Chief companies with which Mr. Eaton is identified include...
Inland Steel. Second largest in Chicago district. Plans to merge with Youngstown Sheet & Tube suddenly dropped...