Word: steps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duke will be the hereditary governing director with a controlling share of the stock. The other stockholder is Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, the Duke's second son. The Duke, whose first wife was Consuelo Vanderbilt, and who is one of the wealthiest peers of the realm, took this step to escape the crushing taxation which is levied upon private fortunes. The capital of the Company is about...
...beginning of the election campaign (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier Pashitch had Stefan Raditch arrested and his Croatian People's Party (Republican) declared illegal as a step to increase his (Pashitch's) majority. The Croat Republicans, however, were elected under new party names...
...blessing they are boys," said Walter Nip, when interviewed yesterday about the Hasty Pudding chorus which he is coaching. "No girls would cooperate as those boys do. The girls want the end position and a good-sized raise every time they learn a new step...
There is admittedly a considerable element of uncertainty in any such rating, but President Hughes declares that it fills a long felt want and that the results have a high degree of value. It may be, he declares, that the rating is inaccurate, but at least it is a step towards calculating the relative efficiency of the universities in the United States...
...since, on that basis, about $1,000,000 additional fixed charges would have been saddled on the already over-burdened company. Accordingly, three receivers for the road were appointed, while separate, protective committees were also organized for its bondholders, its preferred stockholders and its common stockholders. Undoubtedly the next step will consist of a paring down of the stock and junior bond issues, to effect a reduction of capitalization and fixed charges. The bankers will probably produce a "reorganization plan" effecting these painful but necessary changes when the time is propitious and the road's earnings make a better comparative...