Word: lindley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Upon his arrival in London from his five-year tenure of the Viceroyalty of India Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Lord Irwin got the Garter...
Seven minutes after Delivery Time, the visitor and his host from Pynchon & Co. were startled by the great electric gong which calls the Exchange to order. They saw Vice President Allen Ledyard Lindley standing on the Rostrum, grave and silent. The hum of trading dwindled to awful silence. A moment later the ticker flashed to the ends of the country the message: PYNCHON & CO SUSPENDED FOR INSOLVENCY...
After dark Wall Street tiptoed down Pennsylvania Avenue, turned softly in at the White House, stayed for dinner. Afterwards in the quiet security of an upstairs study President Hoover heard Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, and Allen Ledyard Lindley, its vice president, talk about the stockmarket, bear raids, short sales. President Hoover was vitally interested because the recent fall of stocks below the lows of last November's crash focused the business depression in all its gloom before a nationwide electorate on its way to the polls...
...until 48 hours after Messrs Whitney and Lindley had bid the President goodnight were persistent newshawks able to worm an admission from the White House that they had been there at all. President Hoover was described as approving the New York Exchange's efforts to curb short selling but unwilling to take any hand in the matter. U. S. officials agreed that the Federal Government lacks authority to deal with short stocks sales on the New York Exchange as it tried to deal with short wheat sales on the Chicago Board of Trade (TIME, Sept...
...Freshmen who took part in the debate in the New Lecture Hall were as follows: J. B. Glibert '33, D. M. Sullivan '33, J. R. Wink '33, and W. A. McGivney, alternate. For Yale, the debaters were the following: Seegall, Lindley, and Ferris. The six minute rebuttal was conducted for Harvard by J. R. Wink '33, and for Yale by Lindley. Organized under the auspices of the English department, the debate was supervised by R. W. Coues '95, and R. B. Eckles...