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...Joyce became interested in Great Western it had a terrific accumulation of unpaid dividends on its preferred. Mr. Joyce obtained the support of big shippers, saw that more & more freight was routed -via Great Western. He became chairman of the road, handling its financial policies. President Victor Vincent Boatner continued in charge of operations...
...cumulative preferred? first payments since 1919. A large part of its success has been due to the new shippers, but another part has been due to Mr. Joyce's feeling that "the trouble is too damn many men wearing the seats of their pants shiny." When last July President Boatner had to resign because of ill health (he went on a round-the-world cruise with his sister) it was natural that energetic Mr. Joyce should become acting president. Railroadmen noted with interest last week that he had assumed the position permanently, will be operating head as well as financial...
...Standard Steel Car Co., and John W. O'Leary, President of National Bank of the Republic. At the annual stockholders' meeting the group elected Mr. Joyce chairman of the executive committee and Bernard E. Sunny, of General Electric, board chairman. New by-laws were passed giving President V. V. Boatner entire control of operation and Mr. Joyce and the Executive Committee control of finance. As railmaster of the Great Western Mr. Joyce succeeds the late Samuel M. Felton, who dominated the road as president and chairman during the last two decades. Director General of Railways during Wartime, Samuel Felton...
...just and easy way to raise the needed revenue. - (a) It is an equable tax: Boatner in Cong. Rec., XXI, 4515. - (1) It is the most evenly distributed. - (2) It reaches consumers in proportion to incomes. - (b) It furnishes one-fourth of the total revenue under the present tariff. - (c) It has always been deemed a proper revenue duty: Price in Cong. Rec., XXVI, 9954. - (d) It is an easy tax to collect: Perkins in Cong. Rec., XXVI...
...unadvisable to remove the sugar tax at the present time. - (a) Deficit must be met by heavier burdens in other directions: Boatner in Cong. Rec., XXI, 4515. - (1) Income tax would become firmly established. - (b) Other onerous taxes should be removed first: ibid. - (c) Sugar tax may render possible repeal of the income...