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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt's famed radio voice was never better than when he intoned: "1 pray God no hazard of the future may ever dissipate or destroy that common ideal [of democracy]." Because more of them understood French, the crowd had more cheers for President Lebrun: ". . . despite the distance separating the United States and France, these two democracies . . . must remain united...
...column is neither German nor Dutch nor English, but a mixture of all three. It is the dialect of the ''Pennsylvania Dutch," who number more than 150,000 in that part of the Lehigh Valley. The experts, of whom Mr. Troxell is No. 1, resent the common designation of "Pennsylvania Dutch," insist that Pennsylvania Germans is correct. The language is better suited to the ear than to the eye, hence Pumpernickle Bill's column is read aloud to family groups in over half the homes reached by the Allentown Call...
...fronts, Big Steel piled up the biggest first-half profit in seven years-$64,000,000, quadruple the figure for the same period of 1936. With part of these profits the U. S. Steel directors paid up the last arrears on their 7% preferred stock, making dividends on the common a possibility for the first time in five years...
...elected him to succeed President Wallace Zwiener, who died a year ago. The company then dropped a previous proposal to issue some $570,000 worth of stock, adopted a more ambitious plan. Approved by Hupp stockholders last April this provided for a reduction in par value of the outstanding common stock from $10 to $1 a share, exchange of stock on a one for two basis, sale of 988,971 new shares at $3 a share. Marketed through a syndicate headed by F. S. Yantis & Co. of Chicago, these netted the company $2,690,000 last June. Thus Hupp acquired...
...wide-awake homeliness. Harry always noticed a lot of things that other people never thought about. It came to him that his experience in Vera Cruz was specially planned by God as part of his training. In lonely sea-watches he figured it out. God had given him his common sense and uncommon luck to enable him some day to sail out across the Black Ocean where no living man has been and bring back the truth. When he got stuck in the fo'c's'le hatch of a foundering old tub Harry knew his drowning...