Word: accomplishments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eaton's pack, an ace is United Light & Power, far-flung utility holding company. What actually seems to have transpired was that the Eaton-Otis holdings in this and many another company* sold last week to Continental Shares, Inc., a holding company which Mr. Eaton controls. To accomplish this, Continental Shares Inc., had borrowed a large sum of money, some in Cleveland, more in New York. Since control of Continental Shares is firmly lodged with the Otis-Eaton interests, the deal seemed to have little actual significance except that Mr. Eaton's financial resources are ample...
...Bernard Fay speaks before the Morris Gray Poetry Group, a larger number of students than ever before will have the opportunity of benefitting by the unusual bequest which has done so much for those interested in verse. Previously the audiences have been limited, both because a small group could accomplish more than a large, and because the meeting place does not permit a large gathering...
...Kent reply to the Morrow attack attributed earnings declines to general depression, stressed the company's sound cash position. "In times of depression," said the management's letter to stockholders, "there will appear designing individuals who will seek to stir up dissension and seize upon it to accomplish selfish ends. . . . We must . . . warn you against any scheme . . . which may have as its object stock manipulation for the benefit of the few." Between-the-lines readers saw in this statement a suggestion that a Morrow victory might result in a merger between Ward and Gold Dust...
...that the student can pass the General and Divisional examinations at the end of the Senior year. The true raison d'etre of the tutorial system is to aid the student in his self education in that field which he has selected as that most fitted to him. To accomplish this it is imperative that the student have a foundation that will permit him to work in his field as a specialist. In the light of present preparatory inadequacies this is impossible...
Index to the probable disintegration was the resignation, as chairman of the Insti-ute, of Colonel John H. Price, president of Price Brothers & Co., Ltd., large producers of newsprint. Said he: "I have become convinced that the expressed purposes of the Institute and my efforts to accomplish them have been and are defeated by the unwillingness of members to conform to either the spirit or the terms of their mem- bership agreement...