Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...particular branch of the business. One was to sell high grade bonds, another land bank and Home Owners Loan bonds, a third Southern municipals. One was to act as broker for the others. Reports on municipal bonds were to be furnished by a bureau known as the Municipal Yardstick. Over all was to preside The National Marketplace for Municipal Securities, Inc., with Michael Devlet as president. Its purpose : "To provide the paternal guardianship of ... Michael J. Devlet for deserving proteges...
Proteges and companies will share profits 50-50 with their guardian. Municipal Yardstick, wholly subsidized by him, will be run by the woman who helped teach Mr. Devlet how to trade in bonds- shrewd, plump Mrs. Irma Eggleston, one-time manager of trading at C. F. Childs & Co. Most notable protege is Richard George Brennan, owner of his own bond house before Depression, whom Guardian Devlet rescued last year from a career as longshoreman and salesman of lumber jackets...
Authorize the President to cut all Federal salaries, civil and military, up to 15% by means of a "cost-of-living" yardstick...
...mystery of modern journalism is the Press's concept of news about itself. Confronted with a story about his own business, the newspaper editor seems to throw his news yardstick out the window. Last week offered a clear example. The Press gave columns to the dull doings of State Publishers' Associations convened throughout the land. It reported at length a Columbia University survey showing that most newspaper readers turn first to left-hand pages (for the obvious reason that right-hand pages are usually filled with advertising). The Press dwelt lovingly on a speech by Undersecretary of State...
...fund for sabbaticals for the older teachers, the Addison Gallery of American Art (TIME, May 25. 1931). Since 1928 a whole new Andover, in Georgian style, has been sprouting on the hill. Last week this seemed a great monument to ailing "Al" Stearns. And it also seemed a yardstick by which Thomas Cochran and the other trustees would certainly be obliged to measure the calibre of Andover's next headmaster...