Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most spectacular, was John Davison Rockefeller's bid for 1,000,000 shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey. The other was the formation of the powerful Bankers' Consortium. Last week the Consortium issued its first official statement, making it through Morgan-partner George Whitney. Worded in ultra-conservative fashion, it was: "In behalf of the so-called banking group, consisting of ourselves, First National Bank, National City Bank, Guaranty Trust Co., Chase National Bank, Bankers Trust Co., Guggenheim Bros., which, on Oct. 24 last, was informally organized to assist in the stabilization of the then disturbed stock...
College Humor has built up a considerable racket of capitalizing on the nation's educational institutions, but, at least among the larger Eastern universities, the magazine has probably antagonized more undergraduates by its ultra-hey-hey attitude than it has made friends by attempting to develop a magazine devoted entirely to the collegiate world...
...Unfortunately most of the past productions of the Theatre Guild have led one always to expect something superlative. The present effort obviously does not come up to this standard. It is good and even worth seeing in the midst of the Reading Period, but it lacks the distinction of ultra finesse which has established the Theatre Guild as the finest and most intelligent producers in America...
Altogether the trend seems to be toward ultra-refinement. The auto-body is safely out of the buggy chrysalis. Enterprising designers begin to regard it as an entity, having its own particular problem and solution, its own utilitarian beauty...
Impartial Senate observers rate him thus: An ultra-liberal Democrat, he has shown an individual talent for legislation. His political and economic theories cause him to swing naturally into line with the Norris-La Follette Insurgent faction of the Senate G. O. P. He exhibits no capability as a minority party leader. His votes are generally independent, sometimes freakish (he was the only Democrat to vote against the special session adjournment). A good partisan, he flays the Old Guard and what he calls G. O. P. "imperialism" so vigorously that many a conservative mistakes him for a radical. In industry...