Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, nearly three months after the start of hearings during which witnesses for the Berry interests presented evidence by which the value of the leases could be estimated variously between $1,500,000 and $87,000,000, the three-man commission took a good look, decided that it was worth not $87,000,000 nor $1,500,000, but nothing...
...four Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, had sought to tie up TVA's power program by challenging its constitutionality. Result was a decision by a three-man Federal tribunal in Chattanooga last January which flatly upheld the constitutionality of the contracts under which TVA has sold some $3,500,000 worth of power to 32 co-operatives and municipalities and nine industrial corporations, cleared the way for Director Lilienthal to fulfill contracts with other municipalities (including Knoxville, Chattanooga, and Memphis...
...Embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Ambassador cocked his feet up on his highly-polished desk, to the satisfaction of Britons who always thought the "English gentleman" manners of his predecessor, the late Robert Worth Bingham, somewhat pretentious. Joe Kennedy proceeded to go for a ride on a "rented horse," played golf (see p. 28), shook hands with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
Strong reverberations of protest echoed through the Law School early this week over the appropriation of $3,000 worth of profits from the school's first yearbook, published in January...
...slight margin is an example of sorehead thinking. Any man who permits his name to appear on a ballot must be ready to except the consequence of losing by 50, 5, or 2 votes. An election cannot be repeated anymore than a horse race. Third, the Committee questions the worth of petitions by holding that the system is "obviously discriminatory" against those put up by petition, since such nominees appear to be "self-seekers." Election results over the last few years have proved this a false complaint, particularly the Council elections...