Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worked out as a compromise between the claims of the senior bondholders and the loud squawks of the junior holders, the new MOP plan is a thorough rehash of the ICC plan issued three years ago. First & foremost it allows for the snappy rise in MOP earnings since 1938, would use cash to pay off more than $50,000,000 top-ranking bonds (the ICC plan would distribute $2,700,000 cash). This fat payoff permits the new plan to give a much better deal to junior security holders and at the same time stay within the framework erected...
...Young set out to defeat the ICC plan and thus save his own hide. Campaigner Young's battle cry: the plan is based on the "Dust Bowl" earnings of 1933-it must be changed. Charged tough, senior Bondholder Spokesman John Weiss Stedman: the-arguments are wholly fallacious . . . the proposals "are a tax-avoidance scheme...
...Will White quit the University of Kansas in his senior year to work as printer on the El Dorado, Kans. Republican., He moved to Kansas City, where he reported for the Journal, which he left in 1892 because he felt it was slipping (it folded in 1942). In Kansas City he met and married Sallie Lindsay, a school teacher (their soth anniversary: this coming April 27). Then, in 1895, he borrowed $3,000, bought the Emporia Gazette...
...WAVES and Navy Nurses alike; in general, the regulations and customs applicable to saluting of and saluting by men in the Naval Service apply for the women. Juniors salute first, whether it be a junior saluting a WAVE, or a junior WAVE saluting a senior male officer...
...question of whether a senior WAVE should be called "Sir" as male officers are called, or whether she should be "ma'am" as some have suggested, has likewise been resolved in a simpler manner. If the officer is being addressed by name, it would be "Miss" (or Mrs.) Jones, following the Naval usage of addressing all officers of rank of lieutenant commander and under by that form. If the officer is not being addressed by name, simply use the rank: "Aye, aye, lieutenant," or "Good morning, lieutenant." The usage thus follows the Marine Corps and Army custom...