Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amazing memory for figures for the fact that soon after he began practicing he was earning the fashionable income of ?30.000 per year. "Figures spoke to him like poetry to another man," commented a fascinated observer after Rufus Isaacs' sensational prosecution of England's notorious swindler, Whitaker Wright...
...Whitaker Wright began to float companies devoted to ambiguous enterprises. By intermingling their affairs and complicating their books to the utmost, he was able to rob his investors fantastically. Shrewd businessmen who were directors of his London & Globe Co. believed in his infallibility as unquestioningly as did the associates of the late Ivar Kreuger and Samuel Insull. In 1903 London & Globe Co. crashed. Whitaker Wright was charged with issuing false balance sheets. So complicated was the financial maze he had built that no lawyer in England wanted the case. Rufus Isaacs agreed to prosecute it. For days he stood...
...follows:--November 9, Dr. W. B. Cannon '96, "The Element of Chance in Research." December 8, Dr. P. E. Boyle, "Abnormalities in the Calcification of Teeth." January 12, Dr. C. C. Suminous, "Cancer." February 9, Seminar night, at which the Juniors will read their tutorial papers--Dr. G. H. Wright in charge. March 9, Dr. R. J. Nagle, "Researches in Metallurgy." April 13, Ladies Night--no speaker as yet. May 11, Graduates' Night--fellowships awarded...
Newshawks asked Hunter Wright if his lionesses were real. "Well," said he, "they look like lions, and they roar like lions, and they eat like lions. I guess they're just lions...
Seventy-eight per cent of the 395 men who graduated from the Business School last June have already obtained permanent positions, it was learned yesterday from E. F. Wright '24, assistant dean of the Business School. The average salary of these 309 men is between $100 and $125 a month...