Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grey felt hat over his shrewd Irish face, has been taking bets at New York tracks since 1906. At Belmont Park and other New York tracks his stool is No. i in the. line of bookmakers in the betting shed. The odds chalked on his slate are highly respected by his confreres. A onetime New Orleans bicycle-racing champion, Tom Shaw, now 60, rides in an open Rolls Royce...
Apparently the hard-hitting broker, who has spent most of his five years in office battling his institution's enemies, preferred harmony to an open fight. He informed the nominating committee that he would be pleased to accept a place on their official slate as a candidate for one of the ten regular governorships open each year. And with Mr. Whitney out of the race the next president of the New York Stock Exchange will be the nominating committee's choice-Charles R. Gay. head of the oldest house on the Floor, Whitehouse & Co. On him will devolve...
Each year on the second Monday in April the nominating committee of the New York Stock Exchange posts a hand-picked slate of officers and governors for the May elections. During the preceding month it holds three open meetings at which brokers suggest candidates, make stump speeches. In the end, however, the nominating committee from the depth of its own wisdom names whom it pleases. Throughout the 143 years since organized trading began under the old buttonwood tree on Wall Street, official nominations have been, almost without exception, tantamount to election...
...last week, however, it looked as if. for once, the annual Stock Exchange elections this year would provide plenty of hot politics, perhaps even a real contest. For the last five years the name of Richard Whitney has headed the official slate, and his nomination has never been seriously opposed. But Wall Street dopesters were convinced last week that the nominating committee will not name President Whitney for a sixth term. Its choice will apparently be Charles R. Gay, senior partner of Whitehouse & Co., oldest firm on the Exchange (founded 1828). And what had turned the Floor into a hustings...
...wear baggy plus fours of assorted tweeds and gaudy sports sweaters when Germany's air army was really secret. After Hitler became Chancellor they changed to a "grey blue uniform, purely civilian." Last week, like caterpillars bursting out of greyish skins, German air officers sprouted into Reichswehr slate blue, their short Nazi "dirks of honor" lengthening into swords...