Word: weeded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expedite matters Chairman Doughton last week personally undertook to weed out and allot time to those representatives of the tax-paying public who wanted to air their views before the Ways & Means Committee. Growled Republican Committeeman Allen Treadway of Massachusetts: "Any attempt to prevent the general public being heard to the fullest extent is certain to meet with severe condemnation." But the hearings went ahead with one main objective: to report a tax bill to the House by April...
...likelihood of further payments boosted the stock to $115 on the New York Stock Exchange. Holding 52,799 shares of Chain common, as well as 325 shares of its preferred, President Walter B. Lashar was well pleased with the dividend declaration. Most famed product of American Chain is the Weed nonskid automobile tire chain. Weeds, however, were not invented by Mr. Lashar but by Hiram Weed of Canastota, N. Y. In the early 1900's Mr. Weed bought his chain from a small chain company, of which Mr. Lashar was sales manager. In 1915 Mr. Lashar, backed by William...
...Otis opposition arose only after the Otis corporation had first sought and been denied a position as underwriter," he urged stockholders who had not voted to send in their proxies when the meeting is reconvened this week. Meanwhile opposition to Mr. Tew developed in another quarter when one John Weed of Beverly Hills, Calif., who claims to be one of Goodrich's six biggest preferred stockholders, announced that he would campaign for the election of directors to represent the preferred interests. Unable to find Mr. Weed's name on its list of shareholders, Goodrich declared that the preferred...
...Charter Day speaker more liberal than Nicholas Murray Butler or David Starr Jordan. Walter Lippmann two years ago was a starter. But Pundit Lippmann had no such enemies on the West Coast as "Madam Queen" has among the San Francisco businessmen. Because she declined to use her department to weed out and deport alleged Reds, many a San Franciscan still believes that the Secretary of Labor was somehow morally responsible for last year's General Strike...
...games fights seen in a Harvard ring was demonstrated by Dave Gardner, rocky heavyweight who made his debut of the season to replace Ham Turner. There was wild, unskilled swinging by both Gardner and Weed, with the Eli on the offensive. Gardner continually took Weed's long-range offerings undefended, against the ropes and in the corners a large part of the time...