Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play, And his greatest joy is three meals a day, So when Marshall invited the pages to dine Not one of the boys was heard to decline. . . . This fine innovation was given each year, As long as Tom Marshall remained with us here, And then came Coolidge, so silent, yet plain. Quoth he: "Lads must eat, so let's choose It again." . . . So thus the tradition established in fact Decreed a Vice President thereafter shall act. Now when Dawes, with his pipe with its inverted flue Appeared on the scene, which to him seemed quite new And was told...
...stock holders "were violated because vital information was withheld from them." Of the merger terms, the Court said: Grave doubt as to the adequacy of the consideration exists. "Nothing to say. Thank you very kindly," was the only remark made by Mr. Eaton when he heard the news. Equally silent were the defeated factions who had 30 days in which to appeal, who would not likely give up until the U. S. Supreme Court heard the issue...
...SILENT WITNESS-Melville Davisson Post-Farrar & Rinehart...
...great, early judges were of the opinion that the human mind was incapable of fabricating a false consistency of events. At some point there would appear a physical fact to destroy it. This silent witness . . . was always standing in the background to be called by anyone who had the acumen to discover it." In these 13 criminal cases the silent witness is called and comes forward with damning evidence no less than 13 times. In every case it is easy-going old Colonel Braxton ("a mind on him like a whip, suh!") who does the calling. Nothing fools...
That afternoon most of the great bankers of New York gathered on the tenth floor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Specifically, their meeting was precipitated by the run on Bank of United States. But actually the run was only the climax to weeks of silent withdrawals, months of rumor, two attempts to merge Bank of United States with three other banks (TIME, Dec. 8). Only two days before the run, it was announced that the second attempt to merge had failed...