Word: senior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...naval and air forces of the Son of Heaven soon began shooting up the Yangtze, sinking scores of heavily laden Chinese junks. They were believed to have sunk all Chinese warships anywhere in the vicinity of Nanking for many miles up and downstream. Colonel Hashimoto, senior Japanese officer, announced "I have orders to fire on every ship in the river!" Although the Yangtze is by treaty an international waterway, although all British vessels flew the British flag and had huge Union Jacks painted on their deck, three unsuccessful airplane attacks were made on the British gunboats Cricket and Scarab. Small...
...first Stock Exchange houses to start investment counsel service in a big way but also was among the first to realize that such service should be divorced from the underwriting and commission business. And last week Chas. D. Barney & Co. had the distinction of having its senior partner, John W. Hanes, named as the first Stock Exchange member appointed to the SEC (see p. 53). Founder Barney, now 94 and long since retired, lives outside Philadelphia but two of his grandsons are in the firm, as is a great-grandson of Jay Cooke. It also has a partner named Fish...
...mighty underwriting house with a commission business sideline. With the divorce of underwriting from banking, the high-powered personnel of the Guaranty Co. (securities affiliate of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co.) found itself out of a job, and after a little dickering moved into E. B. Smith. Senior partner of this bigger & better E. B. Smith was the old Guaranty Co. President, Joseph Rockwell Swan, to whom Senator Wheeler once remarked, in connection with Van Sweringen financing: "I do not doubt your good faith but I do doubt your judgment." The old firm had capital and the Guaranty...
Keppel reported the Conference disclosed that at Harvard more students turn out for class elections than at many of the other institutions. At Cornell, 550 out of a student body of 3000 is termed "pretty good". In the Harvard Senior elections alone 573 ballots were cast last year...
...neglected Leverett House Senior looked in his mailbox a week ago and found the first bit of mail he had gotten in eleven days. It was an announcement of reduced airplane rates to Chicago and other of the larger cities; but he was going to spend the vacation in Manchester, New Hampshire. Justifiably annoyed, he thought, "I'm gonna write myself a letter," and did. He mailed it from Wayland...