Word: solely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing of his and his subscribers' complaints, Dees was his own attorney, his sole witness. Asked to explain his last year's salary from the phone company, he said: "I figured it was worth $100 a month to myself for having to put up with these complainers." Expounding his company's connections, he offered: "My company is in cahoots with the Southern Bell. . . . They get the money and I get the cahoots." Of a subscriber who claimed he had been trying to get a telephone installed for three years, the phoneman asked: "Do you still want...
...Prince Leon Mazeppa von Razumovsky, socalled, who calls himself sole surviving descendant of the Count Razumovsky whom Catherine the Great named as hetman of the Ukraine. In the U.S., where he was known as Jacov Makorin, he was once a member of the Marine Corps. After World War I (in which he did not fight) he became an antique dealer, later found a good living in pushing his claims to the hetmanship of the Ukraine, backed by Canadian Ukrainians and some U.S. speculators interested in oil concessions. When last heard of, he was living in Italy...
...Senator read statistics to show that the Government must now furnish 70% of the power to make up the aluminum shortage. After adding that the U.S. will be practically the sole purchaser, he said: "Under such conditions there is no basis for large profits to private interests. The furnishing of management skill and services is all there is left. There is a question whether, at least as to one or more plants, the Government should not hire the necessary personnel on a salaried basis...
...preferred stockholders (about 18,000 private investors) are owed $29,250,000 in back dividends. But when their share of the integration spoils was announced, the price of the preferred touched a new 1941 high at 64. As for the 163,000-odd C. & S. common shareholders, they become sole owners of the Southern properties (which might constitute an integrated operating unit), stand a long chance for dividends-the first since...
Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...