Word: flourished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile last week the Better Business Bureau of New York City, reviewing the business year ended May 1, reported that promoters of the timeworn "sell and switch" racket* were still active, that "gyp" stock vendors had continued to flourish as of old under the Securities Act largely because the Federal Government had been backward about criminal prosecutions. Declared the Bureau: "An examination of the registrations under the Federal law reveals that by far the greater percentage of registrations was of highly speculative enterprises. Most promoters of such enterprises are deterred but little by responsibilities of civil liability which, under...
...needless. Meanwhile, we celebrate Mother's Day. How utterly typical of the worst of adolescent public opinion is that flower of commercialized sentiment. A rather shameful procedure that, a hypocritical gesture typical of a people who believe they can replace a deep obligation by a shallow sentimental flourish...
...other is available. Before relying on public assistance in exterminating the bootlegger, the government would do better to concentrate on securing an adequate supply of fairly priced liquor by rescinding exorbitant taxes and outlawing monopoly profits. Until such time as this is done, Joe and Tony will continue to flourish as of yore at the old stand despite all the expense which the government now designs to lavish on their eradication...
From 1894 to 1908, betting on New York horse races was legal under State law. In 1908 Charles Evans Hughes as a reform Governor outlawed racetrack bets with a statute which also denied betters the right to sue to collect winnings. By 1912, since racing cannot flourish without gambling, a turf track on the golf course of Long Island's Piping Rock Club was the only one functioning in the State. Year later a test case uncovered a loophole in the Hughes law. It was legal for betters to deposit money with a bookmaker before...
...industry. Even such a product of the New Deal as the Cinema Code had to bow to block booking-a fact which caused Dr. Lowell to refuse a seat on the Code Authority (TIME, Jan. 1). Remarked cynical Terry Ramsaye in his Motion Picture Herald: "With a great flourish to publicity in the lay press it is announced that Mrs. August Belmont . . . is the new president of the Motion Picture Research Council...