Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this was largely rumor, only General Chen knowing in what shape he had actually left Cantonese finances. To straighten these out Generalissimo Chiang did not call for the financial commission of white experts which might have been sent for a decade or more ago. Honesty in the sense that Western bankers are "honest" and efficiency in the sense that they are "efficient" is now in China the function of the Generalissimo's in-laws, the Family of Soong. Since famed Mr. T. V. Soong, chairman of the board of the Bank of China, could not be spared...
This was the nub of the Kennedy report. Though the management has been turned upside down, Mr. Kennedy did not proceed with his work, his connection with the company having ended July 1. Old Chairman Adolph Zukor had already been shipped to Hollywood to try to straighten out production. President John Edward Otterson was fired, Barney Balaban, an experienced showman taking his place (TIME, July 13). Other showmen were added to the board to replace businessmen directors. Since Mr. Kennedy first looked at it last May, the Paramount Picture has brightened considerably...
...School of Mines in 1930-31? Not at all, declared Father Key. "I ought to know my own son." But even a father's word was not enough for U. C. L. A. Dean Earl J. Miller who forthwith set out for Texas, home of the Keys, to straighten out the case. At Amarillo he found an Earl ("Ox"') Key, Southern Methodist star ten years ago, who insisted that U. C. L. A.'s Key was "Ted" Key all right and he should know because he was his brother. Then another Robert F. Key turned...
...successor to an earlier company of the same name founded by James D. Dole in 1901. As all the holding company does is to hold, it reports no income, no outgo, no profit, no loss. It was formed in 1932 (along with the present Pineapple Co.) to straighten out the tangled affairs of the Dole company, which had grown long on inventory, short on cash. Its president, able young Atherton Richards, is also president of the Pineapple company, and dissolution of the holding company means that the pineapple emergency is over and the operating company can once more take care...
...items of unessential information which throw an oblique light on the times. Thus, Author Brown records that William Cullen Bryant introduced one speaker at Cooper Union as "a lawyer well known in the West, Mr. A. Lincoln." Lincoln's principal problem at that moment was to straighten out the affairs of his son, Robert, who had just flunked his examinations at Harvard. When Lincoln left the hall the committee assigned to escort him to his hotel paid his five-cent carfare and let him ride back alone...