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Word: toed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not Associated directly, but its good operating company, NY PA NJ Utilities Co. (Nypan), is trying to borrow money so that Associated can pay off an $8,589,-980 (8%) bond issue which is due March 15, 1940. Also overdue is $5,780,000 owed the U. S. Treasury by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

If the great boom had given Associated a few more palmy years, it might have succeeded in merging with another $1,000,000,000 system, Standard Gas and Electric Co. Standard runs 26 operating utilities, among them Pittsburgh's large Duquesne Light Co. and Wisconsin Public Service Co. For...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The reason for this is that in September 1935 Standard failed to finance repayment of a $24,650,000 note issue, landed in a reorganization proceeding in a Delaware Federal District Court. Charges (among others) by Senator Robert Wagner's Law Partner Simon H. Rifkind that: a stock deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personnel: Mr. Jones's Proteges | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Baldheaded, 51-year-old Baritone Friedrich Schorr of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera is a specialist in dignified Wagnerian Wotans. He almost never smiles. Last week, black-robed and bearded as Wagner's Flying Dutchman, he scowled his way through the second act, knelt with dignity upon the Metropolitan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Flying Dustman | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

The swankest of the arts in 18th-Century London was Italian opera. Periwigged courtiers, who could not understand a word of it, raised their lace cuffs to applaud the ornate trilling of swivel-voiced prima donnas. Fashionable composers like Handel had to write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beggar's Opera | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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