Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Royal Commission as a whole acknowledged that a Prime Minister cannot possibly be expected to motor some five miles out to Hampstead every time he must change his clothes, asked Mr. MacDonald to state frankly what he thought his salary ought to be. Cogitating, he replied, "At least seven thousand pounds [$34,020]. . . . On five thousand [$24,300] any Prime Minister without private income and dependent on his salary would be living on charity in two years after he left the office, unless he were an extremely careful person or unless he were supported by friends...
...Students assert that with this large salary the young lieutenants will be able to hog the whole of Calea Victoriei?the great after-tea promenade?and run away with all the pretty girls. . . . Students interviewed gave scores of cases of their lycée comrades who failed in the early periods of their work and who are today officers looking forward to the big increase while these students aren't half way through the university...
...took Pennsylvania a whole period to get going against Virginia, but after that her famed backfield (Gentle, Masters, Greene, Gette) was sent in. Their plunges, reverse plays and lateral passes had the inevitable result. Pennsylvania 40, Virginia...
Although on the whole freight car loadings have decreased during the Depression, G. A. T. C., with assets close to $100,000,000, earned $4.58 on its common the first six months of 1930, will show (says President Selig) $2.50 more for the third quarter and at least $9 for the year?best year in G. A. T. C. history. Asked to explain this apparent paradox, President. Selig called attention to the fact that most of his business is concerned with transporting foodstuffs. "People continue to eat," says...
...than a small part, a fact admitted by President Richard I. Whitney when he spoke last week to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, defended true short selling, said: "It is impossible for any individual or group of individuals to buy or sell securities in sufficient volume to affect the whole list." Brokers saw that the Exchange's attitude was against the bear who uses unethical means (such as rumormongering) to depress prices, was perhaps essentially a move to forestall investigation by Congress. Agitation of this sort was commencing last week. Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York notified the Exchange...