Word: watchful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysler but by Dillon, Read & Co., or by a syndicate which they headed, who then publicly marketed new Dodge Brothers securities which securities were among those more actively traded in on the New York Stock Exchange for several years before control passed to Chrysler. THOMAS D. SMITH Watch Hill, R. I. Bidding against Thomas Cochran of J. P. Morgan & Co., Clarence Dillon formed a syndicate of several hundred individuals and banks, bought Dodge from the Dodge heirs for $146,000,000, the largest cash transaction in Wall Street history. In 1928, three years later, having operated Dodge at a profit...
...Perry made a double fault that unraveled his nerves long enough for Crawford to break through on the next point, then win the set on his own serve. A long second set is most valuable to win. At 4-all and 30-40 in the third, Perry watched an easy lob drop, decided it was out, turned to hear the linesman call it good. A few moments later, Crawford had the set. With judicial composure he strolled to the marquee where his plump wife was smiling, chatted for ten minutes, while Perry went to change his flannels for ducks that...
...Cooperj is old enough to swing a cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck & wing in the family tradition...
Those U.S. objectors who argue that the New Deal should get no credit, that recovery in the U.S. started of its own accord, point to Canada with some reason. Other U.S. businessmen who fearful of inflation, talk of moving to less experimental Canada would do well to wait and watch. As Lord MacMillan and his colleagues last week found in the Canadian Northwest, economic radicalism is not dead in Canada. With or without conservative Premier Bennett in power, a Canadian "new deal" may be successfully agitated, with a national recovery act like NRA to speed things...
...thick-shouldered Lou Brouillard has held in the two and a half years that he has been a professional fisticuffer. Born in Saint Eugene. Quebec, he was moved to Danielson, Conn., when he was nine. Three years ago. a peaceable weaver in a Connecticut cotton mill, he went to watch an amateur boxing tournament, substituted in a lightweight bout and won it. After six months as an amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured, I can't go back to fighting...