Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suite in the Waldorf-Astoria, Lou Manning told newsmen that Mr. Cord & friends were interested in all forms of transportation- except those that run on rails. They began hunting for a shipyard long before President Roosevelt launched the Big Navy program. A shipyard would round out their setup. But Wall Street sized up the deal thus: Mr. Cord had shrewdly perceived that shipbuilding (in which labor is nearly 85% of the total costs) would bulk large in any public works program, that by buying one of the biggest U. S. shipyards he was sure to get some of the biggest...
...Defendants Squires, Sapiro and Nelson, Prosecutor Raber declared: "They provided the setup for the conspiracy. They helped organize the groups responsible for bombings, sluggings and strikes, the terrorism that put the price of cleaning a suit up to $1.75 while Al Capone took a cut and the public paid the bill. . . . When we've finished the shades will have been pulled off racketeering in Chicago for all time...
...Stock Exchange List Committee, made public a year-long file of correspondence between his body and Allied Chemical. Mr. Altschul, Lazard Freres partner and brother-in-law to New York's Governor Lehman, had politely and persistently asked for a complete statement of the company's financial setup. Just as persistently and politely the company-that is, Mr. Weber-had refused. The only benefit from such a move, suave Mr. Weber insisted, would fall to his competitors at home and abroad...
Nevertheless, any hybrid union of national and local powers would be definitely a retrogression from the present setup. Education must be entirely national or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial or entirely local. A combination of the two would provide only for financial security with doubled political control and meddling. Under the proposed evolution Mr. Roosevelt must go the "whole hog" or the Chicago teacheres will be pacified to the definite detriment of the secondary school system...
...registration office for all securities to be sold in interstate commerce. Registration fee: 1/100 of 1% of the value of the issue. Facts to be supplied the Commission under oath by all interested parties include a complete and detailed statement of the issuing company's capitalization, its stock setup, the purpose of the issue, bonuses and commissions to be retained by the underwriters and the amount to be returned to capital investment. To register a foreign government security the U. S. selling syndicate must state the object of the loan, its bonuses and commissions, the general financial condition...