Word: swaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lausche's alternative was to swap places on the ticket with Senator Thomas A. Burke, the man he appointed to the late Robert A. Taft's seat, giving Burke a chance for the governorship. But the political dangers of giving up his secure position in Columbus loomed large in Frank Lausche's mind. In 1956, as governor, he would have a vote-getting record unmatched by other Democrats, and he could confidently expect to control Ohio's convention delegates. As a freshman Senator, he might weaken home-state ties, and he would have to jump into...
Under the merger, which stockholders of both companies must still approve, Philip Morris gets Parliament cigarettes, and thus a sizable chunk of the fast-growing filter-tip market. For the popularity of his filtered cigarettes, Cullman is cashing in handsomely. His share-for-share swap of stock with Philip Morris will place a value of approximately $22 million on the company, whose control (55%) was bought for only $1,000,000 twelve years ago by the Cullman family's investment trust, Tobacco & Allied Stocks, Inc. Since Cullman, his brother Howard, chairman of New York's Port Authority...
This anecdote, with minor variations, crops up whenever undergraduates swap professorial idiosyncrasies. Arthur Darbv Nock likes the story with but one reservation: it isn't true...
...first venture as a group was to buy a winged white elephant, and their second was to sell it. They bargained with four boys who owned an old but very respected horse called One to Four, because he was owned by four. They told the boys that they would swap their much publicized horse, Eight to Eleven, for One to four. The deal was completed. it was hard for the boys to say goodbye to old One to Four, but they were sure that Eight to Eleven was a horse of a better color...
...must perform to be entitled to a Big Four conference, all the while avoiding any hard thought about what might be said or done at such a meeting. The hard fact is that, in the year 1953, no Western statesman, and certainly no U.S. President, can make any secret swap with the Russians without severe public scrutiny: Potsdam and Yalta, the wartime era of heady bargaining and private mapmaking, are past...