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When most companies are about to pay a dividend, they announce the event at least ten days beforehand, thus permitting brokerage-house cashiers to check up, make sure all stockholders are properly listed on the company's books. But one day last week Thompson Automatic Arms Corp. ("Tommy" submachine guns) blandly announced it had declared and paid a dividend the day before. Moreover, it was a big dividend-$5.50 a share, a total of $1,391,500. This windfall came from sales to the U. S. Army, France and Great Britain of 4,700 Thompson guns and parts...
...Received Edward J. Flynn (no relative of John T.), manager of his campaign. The conference was private, but Mr. Flynn told reporters beforehand that Mr. Roosevelt would win in a walk...
...beseech the President and Congress of this proud and mighty nation to first train me well, and arm me well before ordering me to do battle. I wish to know beforehand where I must go, which gun I must pick up and in which direction I must shoot it. I wish to be trained in the offensive use of my weapon because surely in its offensive use will lie our best defense, but whether in offense or defense I want my efforts to be formidable and without proper training they aren't likely...
...next two years," Buell believes, "America should be able to bring about a just peace in Europe, if it exercises its powers wisely." His program for mediation would avoid the error of Woodrow Wilson by requiring that the Allies agree with the U. S. on a world settlement beforehand. For getting in training for the grand event he suggests: 1) better intramural cooperation between Congress and the State Department, perhaps through a joint Congressional committee or the appearance of the Secretary of State before the Senate for full dress debates; 2) wartime economic measures including lower tariffs, restraint of plant...
Over Hull's Shoulder. The week's diplomatic news made significant footnotes to American White Paper. When Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made a verbal pass at The Netherlands East Indies, it was significant that Cordell Hull gravely, politely, promptly warned Japan against intervention-warned beforehand instead of protesting afterwards, as the U. S. has often done...