Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dinners priced up to $50 a cover. For Jefferson's birthday he gave dances at assorted prices. For Franklin Roosevelt's nomination he last week devised a scheme to give thousands of Democrats throughout the land something in exchange for $1 a head. Their money's worth...
...mere masses of motiveless malignity. They do not give D plusses and C plusses for the sheer pleasure of the thing. It is even possible to omagine a humane section man closing one eye, looking to see whether or not there be faces at the window, and surreptitiously worth only a D, then being forced by his conscience and the thought of not sleeping nights to go back and give the paper what it deserves...
Standard Oil of New Jersey last week borrowed $85,000,000 for a period of 25 years. The money will be used to retire an issue of 5% preferred stock of a subsidiary called Standard Oil Export Corp. (TIME, May 18). Only $30,000,000 worth of Standard's new bonds were offered to the public, the rest having been bought by various Rockefeller interests including the Spelman Fund, the Rockefeller Foundation and the China Medical Board. But the most notable fact about this notable financing was that Standard borrowed the money at the lowest interest rate ever paid...
Ready for stockholders' approval last week was a plan by which Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. will pay off $25,000,000 of notes now held by RFC. The bank will offer its present stockholders $25,000,000 worth of a new preferred stock in the ratio of three shares of new stock for each ten shares of old. A curious feature of this plan is that Jesse Holman Jones's RFC will carry any Manufacturers Trust stockholder who wants to subscribe to 100 shares or less on what amounts to a 10% margin. On listed stocks...
Senator Borah by no means makes an ideal candidate, but he does have ideas worth incorporating into the party program. His theme song, and indeed he sings little else, is a dirge of hate directed at monopoly in all its forms, particularly the big-industry and labor-union privilege and the farmer privilege which the NRA and AAA represented. Ideas of this sort go at a premium. It may even be hoped--now that the Democratic Party has in effect defaulted upon its free-trade principles--that the high tariff mania and its favoritism to special groups may be modified...