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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incandescent report on the affairs of the Chrysler Corp. the following statement: "Meanwhile, Chrysler common (currently selling under $80, paying at the rate of $8 a share), yields 10%." How nice. But in the course of my usual search in the back pages of the magazine for reading material among the advertisements, I come across the following notice: "The directors of Chrysler Corporation have declared a dividend of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) per share on the outstanding common stock, payable September 13, 1939. . . ." I am a novice at economic matters, and I am confused. ARTHUR B. LOGAN Parkersburg...
...proper observance, safeguarding and enforcing of the neutrality of the United States," he then proclaimed a national emergency. (Orally he called it a "limited emergency" by way of minimizing it.) By that stroke he assumed many powers which would be his in actual war. Having done so, he may, among other things, legally...
...post, or hospital, will draw a salary ranging from $2,500 to $7,500 a year for full-time services. All physicians remaining in private practice, and making more than their "normal" peacetime income will be required to place their surplus profits in a pool, to be divided among Army and Navy doctors at the war's end. Medical care for the 1,000,000 school children who were evacuated from large cities and compensation for victims of air raids will be paid by the Government...
...Francisco and were abashed. In February Los Angeles County responded by snagging, as its new art curator, Roland McKinney, the serious, easy-mannered young man who combed America for the San Francisco Fair's big show of contemporary paintings (TIME, March 6). Roland McKinney has great repute among museum directors because of his work at the Baltimore Museum from 1929 to October 1937. A strong believer in the Federal Art Project, he thinks "we are about ready to go over the top toward something approaching the high Renaissance...
Last year a morose Czech tunesmith named Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a bouncing little tune and called it Skoda Isky ("No more love"). Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand...