Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Public Service Electric & Gas Co. undertook to run its Roseland-to-Metuchen high-tension line through Scotch Plains, N. J. eight years ago, it found its way blocked by a colony of prosperous, high-spirited Poles. To John Crempa, 46, thin, hot-tempered U. S. Army veteran and journeyman tailor, the company offered $800 for the necessary strip of land through his property. Crempa demanded $100,000, and even after the company had the Crempa land condemned and posted the awarded $800 with the court, Crempa refused to take it, raised his price to $150,000. He began...
...Jonathan Brewster Bingham, youngest of the seven sons of Connecticut's onetime Senator Hiram Bingham, took rich Yale at its word. Announcing that it would sponsor the non-credit course, the News persuaded a professor to lecture on his own time, hired a fraternity house for a classroom, undertook to pay all expenses, including a taxi to & from class for the professor and one assistant...
...reply to Mr. Howard on the day last week's hurricane hit the Florida Keys, swept nearly everything else off the front pages (see col. 2). Four days later, after the storm headlines had passed, it was issued to the country. Choosing his words carefully the President undertook to reassure the country on four points...
Frankie Parker is a 19-year-old tennist from Milwaukee. Two years ago, his promise made such a profound impression upon Mercer Beasley that that famed coach not only undertook to improve his game but legally adopted him, sent him to Lawrenceville. Last week, at Forest Hills, N. Y., Frankie Parker played Champion Fred Perry in the fourth round of the National Men's Singles Championship and lost, 4-6, 2-6, 0-6. Other things being equal, he should therewith have disappeared from public notice. Instead it rained for four days...
...Presidential tip is as good for a rousing market rally today as it was in 1928 when Calvin Coolidge undertook to boost securities. Now, as then, stockmarketeers made the most of it. And they were greatly aided by an accompanying hail of other good news, including a pickup in steel buying, active retail trade, a big bulge in carloadings (see p. 56), re-entry of the House of Morgan into the securities business (see below) and pegging of Canadian wheat at 87½¢ per bu. General Motors reported a striking sales gain in August over July. General Electric boosted...