Word: cloak
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Bros. Coal dropped sharply on the Exchange on rumors that it too was involved, but the company announced it had less than $100,000 in the bank. The City of New York sought in vain to release a $1,500,000 deposit. Another big depositor was Industrial Council of Cloak, Suit & Skirt Manufacturers. The bank has around 400,000 depositors, 23,000 shareholders. Last week the State was busy investigating reports that the bank had sold stock to depositors at $198 a share, promised repurchase in the event of a decline, an illegal banking...
...cloak of personal secrecy which has always masked Soviet Dictator Stalin was ripped up one side fortnight ago by United Pressman Eugene Lyons, slit down the other side last week by New York Timesman Walter Duranty, and finally slashed to tatters from the rear by New York Evening Postman H. R. Knickerbocker...
...mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold star, and adorned with a curling ostrich feather...
...press are subdued. The large dailies repress their screaming type, realizing the meaning of the reports of economic difficulties, political intrigue, and nationalistic outbursts over the world. The tabloids, too, are silent on world affairs but largely through ignorance of the import of these stirrings beneath the diplomatic cloak of the earth. Yet in increasing number and steadily growing discord the thousand dissonant notes seem to be merging, threatening to break out swiftly with the thunderous drum roll...
...Gathering about itself the cloak of dignity thus bestowed, the school last week arose and, in turn, named the New York Times Best U. S. Newspaper; awarded it the school's first gold medal, "the highest recognition which we can give ... for distinguished service in our own profession." At Columbia, Mo., Arthur Hays Sulzberger, vice president of the Times, accepted the medal from Dr. M. Walter Williams, the school's dean who was lately elevated to be president of the university (TIME, April 14). Choosing to view the award as in part a personal bestowal upon his father...