Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emphasized its antimonopoly drive, as Franklin Roosevelt sent to Congress his long-awaited message on trust-busting...
Then he was trapped, for the Exchange suddenly decided to require financial statements from all its member firms (as a firm having no margin accounts Richard Whitney & Co. had always avoided this). Dick Whitney tried to bluff his way through by submitting fake figures, but the Exchange sent accountants to his office. This time, Brother George was in Florida, so Dick ran to Morgan-Partner Bartow with the whole miserable tale and a request for $280,000 more. Banker Bartow went to Lawyer John W. Davis, who forbade any financial assistance as improper. Bartow then motored out to Long Island...
...broken by it. The usual report has been that Altgeld never recovered from this verbal bombardment. Barnard's account, however, is that after being dazed and bewildered, the governor suddenly began to fight with the savagery of a man who has nothing more to lose. When Cleveland sent Federal troops to Chicago during the Pullman strike of 1894, going over Altgeld's head, the governor had taken more than he could stand-he became a cool, impersonal, relentless political strategist, controlling the Democratic Party convention in 1896, maneuvering so skillfully that his enemies were thrown into panic...
Three walks in the seventh inning coupled with two hits for four runs off the pitching of Slim Curtiss sent the Crimson nine down to a 5-4 defeat at the hands of St. Johns Saturday afternoon in a flawlessly played game at Soldiers Field...
Many months ago, before hostilities started in the Peiping area, the University sent a shipment of 1,500,000 library cards to the Yenching Institute in Peiping, China...