Word: held
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...held Mr. Jackson. Only 280 members of the House cared enough about the bill to show up last week for a vote to override the President's veto. Of the 280, 153 wanted to override, 127 said nay. The motion failed for lack of the required two-thirds. Representative Francis Walter, Democrat, of Easton, Pa. (ex-New Dealer who took up the bill when Goodman Logan died), promised to carry on next session. Prospects were that some compromise measure would be cobbled together...
...getting dark when Secretary Steve Early went out into the anteroom, told the few newsmen that whatever was to be said would have to come later from the Boss himself. Then came an unexpected summons to one of the rare (three or four) nonscheduled press conferences the President has held in the past four years. Grabbing pencils & paper, they made for the office, were soon scribbling notes on the best White House story in weeks...
...caul on a Friday the 13th, counts 13 her lucky number. She asks for room 1313 in hotels, buys souvenirs (like South American birds) by the baker's dozen; her house in Silvermine, Conn. bears the street number 13. So, by her and Kosty's account, she held out for 13 proposals of marriage, then straightway accepted. They were married in June...
...last May. Thus many a shareholder had paper losses this month on stocks bought before the May collapse. To deduct them from his 1940 taxable income, he had to sell the shares, turn his paper losses into real ones. He then could deduct his short-term losses (on securities held less than 18 months) from short-term profits taken on other transactions this year, carry any net loss over to deduct from next year's short-term profits. On long-term transactions (securities held more than 18 months) he could claim only half to two-thirds of the loss...
...Missouri Pacific last January wiped the common out entirely. Last spring it worked out a plan for Erie. To placate the two major interests- which had been bickering since Erie fell into receivership-ICC effected a compromise. The interests: 1) the Erie bondholders; 2) the C. & O., which held 56% of the voting power. The compromise: capitalization would be slashed from $490,953,630 to $322,692,250, fixed charges from $14,368,842 to $7,000,000 (1937 net railway operating income: $13,614,008). With new bonds, common & preferred issues in exchange for their holdings, bondholders would gain...