Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dohr [April 11] is going to take Mr. Brown [of Johns-Manville] to task because he sold $31 book value stock at $100 when the market was $150, he might ask Mr. Woodruff of the Coca-Cola Co. why his stock is selling at $117 when it has a book value of less than 87. Or he might look into the matter of Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit common which sells around $8 a share despite a book value...
...Lincoln Brigade (which now includes the George Washington Brigade) of Leftist Spain. Total membership of the Friends is about 25,000, all paying annual dues of $1, and many contributing more besides. About 3,500 are blood relatives of the jaunty "Abies and Georgies" who in devil-may-care brown berets are fighting the Spanish Rightists. The Friends have been collecting about $15,000 per month, last week launched a campaign to raise $50,000 per month from now on. Their spirit is that of Leftist Spanish Novelist Ramon J. Sender, who stepped off the Queen Mary last week...
...Sturdy, brown-skinned, brown-eyed Author Mumford has lived for two years in the little village of Leedsville, N. Y., 60 mi. north of Manhattan, in the low foothills of the Berkshires, with his handsome, even browner wife and two children, Geddes, 13, and Alison, three...
...College. The elder Warkentin is currently trying to have the Supreme Court pass on his application for citizenship, which has been refused because, abiding by the tenets of his religion, he will take no oath to bear arms. Son John will take no such oath either. He studied at Brown University under Dr. Leonard Carmichael, went along with Carmichael to the University of Rochester, where he expects to receive his Ph.D. this June. Thereafter he will study medicine at Northwestern, specializing in the visual acuity of human infants...
POST STORIES OF 1937-Little, Brown...