Word: young
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maurice Stephen Sheehy, able young Catholic University executive (TIME, Feb. 13), went on the radio with a scholarly speech detailing the pro-Jewish policies of the Popes, from the earliest (the first Pope, St. Peter, and several of his immediate successors were born Jews) to the late Pius XL Father Sheehy's talk was made under the auspices of a new, interfaith Council Against Intolerance in America...
...artistic and box-office success is no imported, caviar-fed maestro, but a pint-sized, 29-year-old Midwestern musician named Izler Solomon. When National Director Sokoloff left town in disgust three years ago, he left the job of reorganizing the orchestra in Solomon's hands. A shrewd young man, as well as a talented maestro, Conductor Solomon saw at a glance that his WPA outfit could never compete on the same grounds with the seasoned, long-established Chicago Symphony. So he and State Project Director Albert Goldberg planned something different. Leaving the classics to white-mustached Frederick Stock...
What keeps the average sedentary young executive from toning up at court tennis is mainly that there are only twelve courts in the U. S., and a proper court costs some $100,000, must be plastered with a secret British cement apocryphally said to be made from silt from the bed of the Thames. Courts are 110 ft. long, 38 ft. wide, with a net-covered recess behind the server's court called a dedans, in which the spectators sit. On the left of the server's court, and continuing along the same wall beyond the low-slung...
Many a U. S. citizen speculated how his vast bequest might be spent. Charles Hayden stipulated that it be used to promote the "wellbeing, uplifting and development of boys and young men." To Josiah Hayden (whose own needs were well cared for by a $2,000,000 trust fund from his brother), $50,000,000 meant a chance to wave a golden wand, play fairy godfather...
...more than a year Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. has been smoothly squelching Financier Robert Young in a spectacular battle for control of the rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. (TIME, April 25 et seq.). Robert Young controlled the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of the oldtime Van Sweringen railroad domain. But Guaranty was trustee for three Alleghany bond issues under an indenture which specified that whenever the collateral (including Alleghany's C. & O. holdings) behind them fell below 150% of their face value, the bank could impound it. When the collateral so fell, the bank impounded...