Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt was in a little better than his usual good humor one day last week when his newshawks came to press conference. The session had been postponed from the usual 10:30 a. m. to noon to get maximum attendance. Soon he was pouring into their ears a tale of unethical practices, of rich men who had avoided taxes by hiring high-priced lawyers to find loopholes in the law. He had before him case histories provided by the Treasury Department. One man had incorporated his yacht and transferred to the corporation $3,000,000 in securities. Much...
...this famed Court appeared only a short time before its final session will be well preserved for history by the accompanying photograph. It is the second photograph ever taken of the Supreme Court in actual session, and the only one showing the Justices in their new chamber. The other, taken five years ago by Dr. Erich Salomon, made its first appearance in TIME Inc. publications as does this, taken last month by an enterprising amateur, a young woman who concealed her small camera in her handbag, cutting a hole through which the lens peeped, re sembling an ornament. She practiced...
...sooner had trading ended in May contracts than speculative attention shifted to July and September contracts, both of which carried on the corn boom by spurting the full 4?-per-bu. limit allowed in one session. No matter how tall the corn grows this year, the 1937 crop will not start to market until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn...
...down to Big Steel's Irvin as a representative of the new order and those two hard-bitten foes of organized labor, Republic Steel's Tom Mercer Girdler and National Steel's Ernest Tener Weir. For three hours the Institute s directors battled in a secret session frequently punctuated by heat-treated speeches from Mr. Grace. On emerging. the directors blandly announced the unanimous election of Steelman Girdler, whose Chicago plant was within a few hours to be steel's bloody ground for the week. One of the two vice-presidencies went to Mr. Irvin...
...final session of the conference will be on Saturday morning, June 19. "Self Regulation of Business vs. Government Control" and "Contemporary Conditions--A Problem for Business Men" are the speeches which will be heard at this time, the first by J. Hugh Jackson, Dean of the Stanford Business School, and the second by Philip Cabot '94, professor of Business Administration...