Word: statement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general opinion among football coaches, it was said, was entirely favorable to the committee's decision. "The new rule," it was explained in a statement issued by the secretary, "will not apply in case of forward passing nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor will it apply to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore...
Coincident with the Reserve Board's statement came the announcement that the Bank of England had raised its rediscount rate from 4½% to 5½%. With the New York rate at 5% the effect of this change will be to decrease the flow of gold from England...
...combined bearish effect of the Federal Reserve statement and the English rediscount raise was immediately observable. Market quotations sprouted a universal crop of minus signs. In a day's trading General Electric was-off 12½ points, Westinghouse 10?, Case Threshing 10½, International Harvester 6?, U. S. Steel 6¼. An average of 100 representative stocks declined 3.26 points. The Exchange closed Saturday, allegedly as the result of an influenza epidemic whose peak had long since passed. Stocks reopened on Monday comparatively strong, however, showing a distinct recovery from their first disorderly retreat. Having had time for reflection, traders had apparently decided...
Round 17. The Sun Life Insurance Co. of Montreal sent proxies for 44,000 shares to Col Stewart. Dartmouth College sent proxies for 2,360 shares to Mr. Rockefeller Jr. Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist and board-chairman of Sears, Roebuck & Co. came out for Mr. Rockefeller Jr. with the statement: "It was fitting for stockholders in any enterprise to see that the business is managed by officers whom they can trust." But Philanthropist Rosenwald's influence was moral, not financial. He owns no stock in Standard Oil of Indiana...
Attack. For the first few days, Sir Joseph was constantly in the witness box. First salvo for the prosecution was Lawyer Miller's statement of intent: "We hope to show that Sir Joseph has built up an organization which is the finest of its kind in the world and has a strangle hold on the picture business. . . . He has established such contacts with the richest clientele in the world that scarcely anyone else can sell an oil painting. He has built up such a business that when he condemns that picture it is dead, and he knows...