Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger. At present no one can point an accusing finger at the tutoring schools of Harvard Square and Mt. Auburn stating categorically...
...appointed defenders of liberty appear horrified at the thought that anyone but a conservative should exercise the freedom of speech, press, or assembly. No doubt there are "reds" in every college in the country, but they have as much right to express their opinions as anybody else. If the term "political" liberty is to be anything less than a farce, it must mean liberty of action for all groups who conduct themselves in a legal manner...
...company which owns 1,128,000 shares of Tide Water Associated stock.* With this move the Tide Water directors apparently grew suspicious of Mr. Getty's intentions. At the next Tide Water stockholders' meeting, over Mr. Getty's opposition, an amendment was passed which changed the terms of directors. President William Francis Humphrey and three others were re-elected for three-year terms, biggest Stockholder Getty for a single year. At the 1936 stockholders' meeting, Mr. Getty tried to secure the repeal of the three-year term for directors and defeat two other amendments sponsored...
Factoring in the U. S. grew up around the textile trade in the 19th Century, although the old British common law term was not used generally until Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes applied the word when he was in private practice. The textile industry, with its thousands of small, independent mills, is still the biggest factoring field. In the past five years, however, the factors have taken to such lines as shoes, furs, gloves, lumber, fuel oil. In the case of James Talcott, Inc. these new industries are largely handled by associated factors, the company itself merely refactoring, which...
Talcott's own funds are supplemented by borrowing from banks at low rates. The paper it buys is short-term, the turnover rapid. Income is derived from interest on the money it advances and from commissions for the services it performs. For the first nine months of this year the Talcott profits were $419,000 on a volume...