Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great American city has a man without a machine succeeded in beating a machine? Only Dr. Copeland is perhaps without such placid assurance. The strength he musters must come from a battered Tammany machine, and from the antis-anti-LaGuardia, anti-New Dealers-a vote whose total is problematic. If Grover Whalen wins it will be an historic election. It will mean the end of Tammany as the machine in New York City politics. Barbaric conquerors from the provinces will tramp through Tammany's proud hall. But if LaGuardia wins. Tammany Hall may as well be torn down...
...Irish Free State President is by the Dail, itself just newly elected in a poll which failed to give de Valera's Fianna Fail Party the absolute majority for which the President had hoped (TIME, July 12). Fianna Fail won 69 seats, exactly the same number as the total held by all other parties combined. Free State Laborites continued last week to vote in loose coalition with Fianna Fail, and Eamon de Valera was elected President for the third time by a smashing Dail vote of 82-to-52. Next the Dail obediently adjourned until Oct. 6, left...
Buried in the verbose columns of the venerable Commercial & Financial Chronicle a few weeks ago was a significant little Recovery fact. In June the total volume of corporate financing in the U. S. was divided between 1) refunding: $149,000,000 and 2) fresh capital: $269,000,000. U. S. Business had asked for more new money than refunding money. Only in isolated instances since large-scale corporate financing was resumed early in 1935 has this happened. In each of the five preceding months refunding ran ahead of new capital, leaving figures for the first half...
...money for expansion is still raised primarily by bonds. In June the total of fresh capital issues was made up of $187,000,000 in long-and short-term bonds, $61,000,000 in preferred stock, only $21,000,000 in common stock. In the same month two years ago there was no stock financing of any kind, common or preferred, refunding or new money...
...best professionals in the world have since failed to equal was convincingly shattered by an unknown, 22-year-old Battle Creek playground supervisor named Melvin ("Chick") Harbert. On the Arbor Hills Country Club course at Jackson, Mich. Golfer Harbert won the Michigan Open Championship with a four-round total of 268, 18 strokes better than his nearest competitor and 20 better than...