Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting non-editorial people...
Already alarmed by the way their shares had condensed on the New York Stock Exchange last fortnight when dividends were passed (TIME, June 14), the unhappy preferred stockholders in New York Steam Corp. must have felt last week as if their corporate fires were about to go out. After the break which carried Steam's two preferred issues down 20 points in one session, the stocks rallied briskly, the 6% series having climbed by last week to $96 per share, the 7% series...
These "air pockets" that even the specialists did not care to bridge were caused by an overnight decision of the New York State Public Service Commission. Steam's friendly neighbor, Consolidated Edison of New York, which has long owned stock control of Steam, last spring brought its ownership up to 96% in open market purchases which squeezed the price of Steam common from $17 to $33 per share in a fortnight. Anxious to merge Steam with its gas & electric properties, Consolidated applied to the Public Service Commission for permission to offer its own preferred stock in exchange for Steam...
Some economists believe that the next great credit expansion will blow out in installment paper, just as in the last boom it blew out in stock market loans. Pointing out the political problem involved in any future effort to restrict consumer credit, the New York Stock Exchange firm of Biggs, Mohrman & Co. lately observed in a thoughtful little pamphlet called The Next. Boom & Collapse...
Married. Ralph Heyward Isham, New York financier and one of the world's foremost authorities on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell; to Christine, Viscountess Churchill; in London. Expert Isham made his greatest find in Malahide Castle, Ireland, two months ago when he discovered in an old iron trunk Dr. Johnson's diary from 1765 to 1784 (TIME. April...