Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt would like to see railroads and utilities shake themselves free from a part of their burden of bonded debt. One good way, he suggested, was to establish sinking funds to retire bonds before they matured. Chicago & North Western hastily took up the Roosevelt idea. Since then, however, financial fashion has dictated a different method of achieving this same end. Faced with a large maturity in April, American Water Works & Electric lately announced a $15,000,000 issue of bonds convertible into stock. Last week New York Central announced plans for meeting its nearby maturities with...
Last week Professor Alfred Marius Neilsen of New York University gave a lecture in a course on Modern Business. Students laughed long & loud at his jokes. They stayed half an hour after class to ask questions. Scores of them edged up to shake his hand, beg for more...
Pausing occasionally to shake the snow out of her bobbed black locks, Mrs. Jean Springstead Whittemore of Matfield Green, Kans., vivacious Democratic Committeewoman from Puerto Rico and for ten years head of the English Department of Puerto Rico University, fairly crowed over her appointment as collector of customs at San Juan. She made no secret of the fact that she had put the political screws to Postmaster General Farley in an unsuccessful attempt to get the governorship for herself...
...SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL-Rearden Conner-Morrow...
...last and most successful rebellion (1919-21), they call it, with resigned racial euphemism, "the trouble." Author Conner's novel, without attempting to give a clear picture of what the various troublemakers were after, makes it quite clear that the trouble itself was desperate, often hellish. Shake Hands with the Devil reads like crude melodrama but Author Conner swears his tale is founded on brutal fact, has needed no embellishment...