Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worth of common and preferred stock outstanding. A. Iselin & Co. and Roosevelt & Son, investment bankers, owned two-thirds of the stock. The par of both kinds (preferred and common) is $100. On the stock markets early last week the shares were considered worth only $80 each. The Van Sweringens offered the Iselin-Roosevelt group the full $100, and gained the purchase. B. R. & P. shares are not worth $100. But so great is general confidence in Van Sweringen financing that stock buyers at once offered $98 a share for what minority stock might reach the market...
...profits. Notable among successful converters is the Cohn-Hall-Marx Co. (Manhattan) which increased its yearly (fiscal) earnings from $4.21 a share in 1927 to $6.47 in 1928. At its head is slick Lawrence Marx, whose most colorful achievement was the sale, last summer, of 30,000 shares of common stock. On the New York Curb, the stock was rising from a low of 23½ to around 50. But most of the company's outstanding 100,000 shares were not for sale, and President Marx is reported to have asked and got $70 a share for his block...
...Kidder, Peabody & Co., Manhattan banking house, last week brought out the first stock issue of the new company. Authorized capital is $15,000,000 preferred, 750,000 shares of no par value common. Manhattan bankers recalled that Kidder, Peabody had backed the New England Cotton Yarn Co., first of large mergers of cotton textile mills...
...still take art seriously: Orient-student Arthur Waley (TIME, Aug. 27), Economist John Maynard Keynes, Biographer Lytton Strachey, esoteric Poet Osbert Sitwell, unique Author E. M. Forster. Many of these were at Cambridge together, have since formed the "Bloomsbury group," intermarrying, settling in adjacent houses, exciting themselves in common interests. Virginia Woolf is daughter to the Cambridge tutor and biographer Sir Leslie Stephen, sister-in-law to art critic Clive Bell, wife to Leonard Woolf, publisher, critic and literary editor of the Nation...
More likely his wife whispered, and he made his mistake common to all young husbands, of believing her. Distance being the one requirement of all those who make their living by criticizing this busy republic, it is easy to see how one might fall into the error of looking for wisdom where they live, move and have their being...