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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests of the company's stockholders are represented by 75,000 shares of preferred having a market value of about $9,375,000, and 850,000 shares of common stock having a market value of about $60,000,000. Thus, on the basis of the composite opinion of investors as reflected in market prices, the company is "worth" $69,375,000. ... To put the matter another way, according to Mr. Brown's exposition each share of common stock was "worth" on December 31, 1936, about $31. Yet Mr. Brown's report points out that the company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 11, 1938 | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...take several London papers and have been amused to see the way their writers used the TIME article as a peg on which to hang columns and columns about "Our Gracie." In the London Daily Express a four column analysis by James Agate is headed "IS GRACIE FIELDS COMMON?" The concluding words are, "She is common, vulgar, and low. Bless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

What Senator Barkley, in common with most of the rest of the U. S., had pardonably forgotten was the existence of a Catholic priest who after the 1936 Democratic landslide promised to refrain from "all radio activity in the best interests of all the people": Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin. Last week Father Coughlin, back on the air again for the last three months, was scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon. When he had done so, it was apparent that if the U. S. press and the U. S. Congress had forgotten him, there were plenty of radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Ninth-Inning Rally | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Transamerica never confined its holdings to banks. It has a portfolio of listed common stocks. And it controls Occidental Life Insurance Co. Indeed, insurance, a business which is not unlike banking in that it is largely concerned with the collection and investment of savings, has long been a prime Giannini interest. The Gianninis bid unsuccessfully for big Pacific Mutual when it got in a rness year and a half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eastward Giannini? | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

With a new plank stating the Union's refusal to take part in a war on foreign soil, the Vassar peace platform was revised by the H.S.U. in their general meeting last night in Lowell House Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL NOT GO TO FIGHT ABROAD, NEW HSU PLANK | 3/31/1938 | See Source »

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