Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Just as John Davison Rockefeller Jr. used his influence as biggest stockholder in Chase National Bank to mold its policies to the temper of the times, so last week did his son-in-law start to trim his Investment Trust Equity Corp. to fit the New Deal (TIME, June 12). As a step toward simplification, President David Meriwether Milton made an exchange offer for the publicly-owned stock in one of his subsidiaries. With the offer went a clear promise to register the company's stock with the Federal Trade Commission as soon as the new Securities Act allowed...
...Germany 36 years ago. A Harvard man, he served his banking apprenticeship in Boston, Washington, Manhattan, emerged as vice president of In- ternational Acceptance Bank, is today vice chairman of Bank of Manhattan Co. On Broadway he is known as Paul James whose lyrics, with music by his trim wife, Kay Swift, helped to make the first Little Show and Fine & Dandy successful. Last year he advised a House committee to cut the dollar's gold coverage from 40% to 35% or 30% and make up the difference in silver. He is now being considered by President Roosevelt...
...extraordinary outlays, derived from long-term bond issues instead of current tax receipts, would be set aside for the next generation to pay off in better times. Thus the gross Public Debt would continue to mount as the result of capital investments but the annual Budget would look trim and shipshape...
Miss Hyman and Miss Morgan know each other. Neither knows Mrs. Benedict. Professor Morgan, 50, is a short, trim woman with slightly grey bobbed hair, blue eyes. Since 1906 she has taught zoology at Mount Holyoke (except for two years at Cornell), has headed her department since 1916. During school hours she habitually wears a tailored skirt, shirtwaist, tie, white "physician's" coat. She moves briskly about her laboratories, lectures her classes in clear, crisp tones. Her recent writings for learned publications have dealt with the winter habits and yearly food consumption of adult spotted newts. But her favorite...
Tall, baldish, with piercing blue eyes and a cropped mustache, he keeps himself in as rigorous trim as when he was a locomotive mechanic in the Altoona shops. His big-toothed grin is familiar to all Pennsylvania's 115,000 employes. When at home (which is seldom) he lives simply in Radnor outside Philadelphia. He claims that his house is so furnished that he can put his feet up whenever he sits down. A railroad man to the core, he has only one automobile, a Cadillac which he turns in every August for a new model. His two younger...