Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...line corporation with a reputation for tight-lipped accounting is National Biscuit Co., world's largest ("Uneeda") bakers of cookies and crackers. In the 37 years of its history it has never missed a dividend; last year made $11,598,000. On its board sit such conservative stalwarts as President Jackson Eli Reynolds of Manhattan's First National Bank and onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. The last person you would expect to see at its annual meetings would be a stocky, blue-eyed, personable young labor leader with a fistful of proxies from striking...
Last week Arnold Bernstein finally got ashore from the Tel Aviv, hopped a Paris express, turned up at the North Atlantic Passenger Conference. There the No. 1 independent was welcomed with open arms into the tight little autocracy which rules the North Atlantic. After the doors of the conference opened, it was announced that Member-elect Bernstein had agreed to up his rates $2.50 one-way, $5 round-trip for the Königstein, Ilsenstein and Gerolstein, charge a minimum of $115 one-way, $207 round-trip for his 16.000-ton German Red Star Liners Pennland and Westernland...
...steady sputter. The strike spread swiftly down through Cuba's entire State educational system, including even the National Kindergarten Association, taking in both teachers and students to the number of more than 300,000. Frightened, President Mendieta gave the strikers the resignations of the two Cabinet members, sat tight...
...brother Richard, stumbled downstairs with Richard after him. While Douglas & Richard drove out two of the seven cars in the garage, a Negro servant crawled through a window to rescue a Scotch terrier they had left upstairs. In the house nearby Senator Schall, with wife and daughter, awoke, sat tight. The lodge burned almost flat. Aboard the cruiser Australia, twice called off her course by the distressed Schooner Seth Parker (TIME, Feb. 18), the Duke of Gloucester, third son of George V, steamed toward Jamaica (via Panama) a week behind his itinerary. Promptly on schedule, his younger brother...
Neatly clad in a brown herringbone suit, a spare, tight-lipped little man walked into a room in the Department of Agriculture one day last month, obligingly posed for cameramen. Secretary Wallace glared at him from the other end of the chamber. So did Secretary Roper and Attorney General Cummings. This Cabinet trio, constituting the Grain Futures Commission of the U. S., had summoned him before them to begin hearings in the biggest case ever handled by that tribunal. The little man was Arthur William Cutten, whom the Government described as "the greatest speculator this country ever...