Word: targets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...More than once the target of bear raids, Chicago & North Western Ry. was reported one day last week to be contemplating bankruptcy. The stock tumbled from $8.75 a share to $3.50. Within a few hours the reports were denied, the stock snapped back to $7.50. The New York Stock Exchange promptly started an investigation. But there was real ammunition for bearish rail operators in the fact that Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific did slip into bankruptcy, and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe cut its preferred dividend from $5 to $3, first reduction since 1901. Bullish operators joked about Baltimore & Ohio...
Rather than Banker Morgan & Partners the real target of the tax uproar was seen to be the capital gains & losses provision of the Revenue Act. For the House of Morgan that provision came into play for tax reduction purposes when on Jan. 2. 1931 S. Parker Gilbert was about to be taken into the partnership. As usual, the old partners sold the business to the new partners by a revaluation of assets which showed a capital loss of $21,000,000. By apportioning this among the partners, they were all legally able to show the Treasury that their income...
...Work, Golf and Work," say his friends, are Frank Aydelotte's hobbies. Golf he shoots under So. Work he does at high speed. Bald, far from handsome (his large ears are always a target at the annual Swarthmore ''Hamburg Show''), he is dynamic and persuasive, with a disarming sunny smile. He talks forcefully, sometimes lurching a shoulder forward, sometimes clasping hands on his stomach and swaying. He it was who in 1918 persuaded the Rhodes Trust to let new Scholars be chosen by old ones, and got the job of managing it for himself...
...women's lavatory. When the daughter (Patricia Ellis) of a loud-mouthed Irish policeman (Robert Emmet O'Connor) visits the office, Cagney's tender instincts are released like a load of bricks. When he takes the girl home her father recognizes a once legitimate target and absentmindedly commences firing. Finally Cagney gets into trouble for smuggling a camera into an electrocution. He retires to a speakeasy, emerges to recover his prestige by turning over to police the No. 1 bandit of the city. This is the third successive Warner Brothers picture to be distinguished by lavatory scenes...
Supernatural (Paramount). In the profession of mind-reading the cinema has found a fine new target with gaudy trimmings. The hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...