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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First National stock, now selling for $1,875 per share and paying $100 in dividends, represents a tidy little investment. During 1929 the stock sold above $8,500 per share, touched a Depression low of $800. What did catch Wall Street's eye was President Reynolds' comment: The number of one-share stock holders exceeds the total number of depositors. With deposits of $479,000,000, First National has less than 1,400 depositors, showing an average balance of at least $300,000. Fact is, First National is primarily a bank for other banks and big corporations...
Recently Martin has been recognized as one of the leading young painters. Among his works which have aroused favorable comment are those of Dr. Davison and Jeanne Madden. The latter is reproduced in this column. Miss Madden has recently signed a contract with Warner Brothers to appear in a motion picture with Dick Powell...
...every character in magazine fiction to possessing, corporeally, just hands, feet, and a face." In 1915 they record that Sinclair Lowis, then reading for Doran Co., rejected "The Cream of the Jest", "because the general public simply cannot be induced to buy novels about unattractive and ignoble people." They comment in passing upon the era of the twenties, when "we writing persons, upon both sides, fought out, in our books, our magazines, and our newspapers, a fine, rough-and-tumble game which we high-heartedly called a literary movement...
Over a week of comment on the part of metropolitan sports writers has done little in the way of refuting this proposition. Rather an attempt has been made to isolate the Princetonian as representing a minority of opinion concerning this important subject on the Princeton campus. Statements have appeared which attributed Princeton authorities with being extremely unlikely to stand forth with objections against advancing the time of preliminary practice. None of these statements carried an ounce of proof...
...affairs of 400,000,000 Chinese. Last week's keynote caused the Japanese Foreign Office's tart spokesman Mr. Eiji Amau to snort: "Senator Pittman's utterances indicate that he is actuated by ill will, and lacks both knowledge and judgment. Indeed, I really cannot comment until I see the official text because such a speech by a responsible statesman is incredible!" Where Was China? In all last week's fighting and alarms where was China? What was the role of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, who is today Premier of the Nanking Government? For some years Generalissimo...