Word: seniorities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chicanery was responsible for the brilliance of the Quiz Kids. Selected from the ranks of Chicago's brightest school children, they face their grueling weekly questionnaire like the senior masterminds of Information Please, with no preparation. The Quiz Kids' resemblance to the Canada Dry show has not been altogether helpful. Afraid of offending the ginger-ale sponsors, NBC hedged the Chicago program with all kinds of restrictions. It forbade the Quiz Kids to maintain a permanent board of experts, banned the use of the word "unrehearsed" in connection with the show, tried to induce the Quiz Kids...
Last week SEC sanctioned the deal. But SEC also pointed out that under an ordinary holding company case it would be unable to approve the substitution of senior debt for preferred stock. Reasons given for making an exception of Ogden: 1) Ogden admittedly exists for the purpose of liquidation; the new bank loan is therefore not long-term debt but a convenience yielding economies; 2) the proposed loan will be covered over three times by collateral of $14,914,024. Reason not given: Odium, whose liquidation of U. P. & L. is carrying out the intent of Section 11, deserves...
...tipped over neighbors' privies, painted his class numerals on the ceiling in high school, spent a night in jail after a football riot. In college he had been known as a radical, a disciple of Teddy Roosevelt, of Fighting Bob La Follette. His classmates had chosen him senior orator. . . . Halleck's voice came over the radio: "There's a man big enough to be President...
...University Law School classmates, at whose head he stood. In a "dry-goods"' law firm (one partner: Charles Evans Hughes) he pursued insolvent debtors for textile merchants, began acquiring corporations as clients. His first big one was Westinghouse Electric Co. In 1899 Lawyer Cravath joined the firm whose senior partner he became. One of the biggest in the world, it became widely known. Some clients: Bethlehem Steel Corp., R. C. A., Baltimore & Ohio R. R., Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Chemical Bank & Trust Co.. E. R. Squibb & Sons, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp., Studebaker Corp. In later years, Lawyer Cravath rarely...
Onetime Yale Crewman Charles Edward Adams, chairman of Air Reduction Co., and of U. S. Industrial Alcohol Co. His job: Ed Stettinius' senior assistant...