Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...restraining order on eight individuals for alleged manipulation of Suburban Electric Securities Co. on the Boston Stock Exchange. Down cracked SEC on the big New York Stock Exchange house of W. E. Hutton & Co. and an Oakland (Calif.) partner of William Cavalier & Co. for alleged manipulation of Atlas Tack, a luckless stock whose gyration once attracted the attention of the New York Attorney General (TIME, Jan. 1, 1933). In that operation Atlas was strong-armed from a Depression low of $1 per share to a 1933 high of nearly $35, only to relapse the same year to $1.50. Last winter...
...first time in many a moon, the Admirals from Maryland tack their skiffs up the Charles and dock at Weld. In the Stadium, the gobs will fire broad-sides of TNT at the Harvard defence, and after the game, Harvard look to your laurals. Uniforms have a peculiar effect upon women. The Best Bets of the week according to Lloyd's are: Harvard, Princeton and the following top notch dine and dance spots...
Considerable of the blame, however, must be laid to the Harkness House architects, who drew up blue prints for the new dormitories without moldings. If you can't hang a picture in the approved manner, you have to tack it to the wall or not hang...
Last year's relief bill was stalled in Congress for more than a month while Labor's friends tried to tack on an amendment requiring payment of prevailing (i.e., union) wages on relief jobs. Opposed by the Administration, the amendment finally failed. Last week the new bill's administration managers promptly accepted a prevailing wage amendment offered by Massachusetts' Connery, let it be voted through after five minutes' discussion. Understanding was that, at prevailing hourly rates. WPA employes would work fewer hours for the same total pay. Explanation of this magnanimous campaign-year gesture toward...
...amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...