Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hershey Cornell LT., Drahos Cornell LG., Worth Princeton C., Stack Yale RG., Dacey Dartmouth RT., Healey Harvard RE., Gustafson Penn QB., Matuszczak Cornell LH., Baker Cornell RH., Hutchinson, Dartmouth FB., McLaughry Brown...
...first a supporter of Woodrow Wilson, he grew scornful of the President's caution, eventually warned his readers: "Beneath the veneering of scholarly polish lies the coiled serpent of unscrupulous ambition." After rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham bought the paper in 1918 and supported the League of Nations (". . . inevitably Woodrow Wilson would be caught by such a whimsy . . .") Marse Henry quit in disgust. He died a few years later...
...taken a bad licking in Willys Overland, and on Insull securities, was the first big time U. S. bank to step up and take advantage of Jesse Jones's offer to buy preferred bank stock with RFC funds. To get new capital Continental sold him $50,000,000 worth...
...underlying companies-among them the Wideners, the Elkinses and other First Philadelphia Families-this was a mighty fine deal. Their original investment in one case consisted of some horses that went to the glue factory about 1874. They claimed recently in court that their property was worth $35,000,000, and the court valued it at $6,000,000, but between 1902 and 1939 they collected $250,000,000 rent on their lease. Last week their collections ended although their lease had still 962 years...
...shade of John Graver Johnson and to the 49 underliers the decision was a blow. As late as 1928 the city was on the point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...