Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Loans. In 1931 a Manhattan lawyer decided that his shares of American Tobacco Co. stock would be worth more if the company officers paid back bonuses they arranged for themselves and got no similar ones in the future. He slapped on two stockholders' suits in which the corporation, although named as defendant, would recover all the benefit...
Hahn sent Sullivan to Lasker, who lent the $250,000 under the impression that it was to be used to cover stock losses. A month later, the Second Circuit Court...
Another immediate result of the Reynaud-Simon performance was a bullish flurry on the Paris Bourse and the London Stock Exchange, where business-as-usual is the rule, and transactions now, though smaller than normal, are in larger volume than just before war broke...
...YORK--An "attack" on officials of the New York Stock Exchange by an unidentified spokesman for the Securities & Exchange Commission provided Stock Market traders with a lame excuse today to lighten their holdings...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...