Word: investment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divorce, it related an alleged instance of misconduct performed in Manhattan by S. S. Kresge and one Gladys Ardelle Fish. But the shareholder was certain that the charge was untrue. Himself morally immaculate, he had made sure that the head of the company in which he was about to invest was ethically as well as financially unimpeachable. He had discovered that Mr. Kresge was well known, not only as an able millionaire, but also as a philanthropist, a reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge...
...Birtwell's style affects the colorful and dramatic. By deft combinations of his typewriter keys he can invest an incident of seeming insignificance with an ours of mystery, a glamor of confidential secrecy, or a cloak of magnificent magnitude. At times he adopts, and very successfully, the attitude of an author of "Things I Shouldn't Tell". The fact that he never does tell them only renders his writings more interesting to the reader...
...inaugurate an era of better feeling, President Calles raised the embargo on the purchase of U. S. goods by Mexican Government offices-a retributive measure -and the ban on mail in Mexico from U.S. insurance companies- a ban required by the law which makes foreign companies invest money in Mexico" before doing business there...
TIME said: "Few U. S. citizens know that E. P. stands for Edward, Prince . . . and very few persons indeed realize that E. P. Ranch is not a princeling's toy but a strictly paying livestock invest-ment...
...sign any bonds or obligations of any kind as surety for any other person or persons; that they refrain from anticipating their income in any respect; that they refuse to make any loans except on the basis of first-class well-known securities and that they invariably decline to invest in any untried or doubtful se- curities or property or enterprise or business...