Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think Samuel Insull was very largely the victim of the complicated structure that he created. Capable though he was, he was unable to comprehend all the ramifications of that complicated structure. I think it is impossible for any one to get an accurate picture of the Insull setup, and I remember the feeling of helplessness that came over me when I began in February, 1931, to examine the structure...
Rumania has learned to sit up and do tricks when France cracks her whip, usually by offering or withholding a loan. Last week Bucharest's whole political setup was knocked down and rebuilt to please Paris...
...Purely a Japanese setup, this new state with its "government" of heavily bribed Chinese Generals still proposed last week to set up its capital at Changchun; and weak-eyed Mr. Henry Pu Yi (ex-Emperor of China) was still to be "Head of the Great Union." But nobody knew (after three weeks of Japanese indecision) whether it would be a Republic or a Monarchy...
Associated Gas & Electric's progress has shown Mr. Hopson's deft accounting touches. Few in Wall Street except statisticians have ever mastered completely the complex A. G. & E. setup, yet Mr. Hopson is said to know off-hand every detail of its multitudinous preferred stocks and bonds and the issues of its subsidiary companies. He is the man who is thought to have worked towards one end recently: the substitution of A. G. & E. preferred stocks wherever possible in the place of subsidiaries' securities. Accomplishment of that end to a great degree has placed A. G. & E. in a stronger...
...revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what it should be the game is rapid. Every player is constantly tense. ... A star member is Dr. Wilbur. He has a peculiar advantage because of altitude (6 ft. 4 in.). . . . Justice Stone is the strong man. When he hurls them, they stay hurled. . . . Attorney General Mitchell plays...