Word: transferability
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Last week Negro Lint Shaw, whom Judge Moseley had thus saved from lynching, returned from safekeeping in Atlanta to Danielsville to stand trial for attempted assault on a white woman. A murderous-looking mob forced his transfer to nearby Royston. There at midnight the same mob ripped him out of the jail. At daybreak his bullet-ridden body was found swaying from a pine tree in a creek bed, Georgia's 468th lynching.* Few days later in Pavo 200 Georgians raised the total to 469 by lynching Negro John Ruskin, confessed murderer of a white...
Cowardly Captain Niggl, ripped from his comfortable post behind the lines and plumped down in the most awful spot on the Verdun front, soon understands the reason behind the company's transfer; when he realizes how ruthless Lieutenant Kroysing is, he is terrified. Just as he is about ready to sign the damning confession, the French attack. After a terrific bombardment the order is given to evacuate Douaumont, and in the chaos of the battle Captain Niggl gets back to safety. Lieutenant Kroysing is reported missing. Meantime Berlin, whose company is in charge of an ammunition dump...
...Middle West for $37.50 was in effect buying one share of the new stock, which can be bought for around $9.50.*Alarmed by the penny-stock traders' determination to make suckers out of themselves, Middle West's trustees last week sought and obtained court permission to stop transferring the old stocks on the company's books. Following their usual practice of dropping an issue as soon as a company fails to maintain transfer facilities, both the New York Curb Exchange and the Chicago Stock Exchange promptly suspended trading in Middle West stocks...
...announced that when WPA uses up the sum of nearly $1,300,000,000 allotted to it out of the $4,000,000,000 work relief fund, instead of seeking new appropriations to carry WPA to June 30, he will transfer to it unspent funds allotted to other Departments-Army, Navy, Labor, Commerce...
...invest the endowment, now amounting to some $24,000,000, in seasoned bonds and first mortgages. . . . The devaluation of the dollar, the widespread bank credit inflation and the possible menace of currency inflation are the new factors with which the trustees must deal. . . . The theory of devaluation . . . implies a transfer of values from the bondholder to the common stockholder. . . . The question of currency inflation is one of constant discussion in Government and the Press and, while not at the moment more than a menace, it is one which cautious trusteeship must be in a position to meet. The record...