Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated and confirmed the appointment of Roy Owen West as Secretary of the Interior. It was recalled that Secretary West was once attorney to Samuel Insull, once held stock in the Insull interests (TIME, Dec. 17). This personal participation in power transactions had been urged against Mr. West's fitness to be Secretary of the Interior, to serve on the Water Power Commission...
...Manhattan last week, 7,500 birds, 187 rabbits, 15 cavies (i. e., guinea pigs), and a great number of persons crowded the basement of Madison Square Garden. This was the 40th Annual Poultry, Pigeon and Pet Stock Show...
Engaged. Helen Wills, 22, holder of U. S., English and French tennis championships, fair-to-middling painter; to Frederick Shander Moody Jr., 27, stock broker of San Francisco, fair-to-middling tennis player.* They first met at Cannes in 1926. Said Miss Wills last week: "I will play tennis as long as I can hold a racquet." The London Evening News talked to Miss Wills in Berkeley, Calif., over long distance telephone to get the story...
...board of directors of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, at the annual meeting of stockholders in Whiting, Ind., on March 7. Stockholders of record of Feb. 5 will be entitled to vote or send proxies. Standard Oil Co. of Indiana has issued 9,160,000 shares of capital stock, which are now held by some 58,000 persons or companies...
Round 3. President Edward G. Seubert and the directors of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana voted unanimously to support Col. Stewart, asked stockholders to do the same. The majority of employe-stock-holders are supporting Col. Stewart, either because they feel that he has made the company prosper or because they fear for their jobs. Standard Oil of Indiana profits for 1928 were estimated at $80,000,000, or about $9 a share. At the end of this round, Col. Stewart was a 2 to 1 betting favorite...