Word: convert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate angle of the whole situation is that the students, the only ones directly affected, are considered a negligible quantity in the opposition. The defenders tried to convert only those objectors who control votes. It might be pointed out, without containing the implication of a threat, that the college students of today are those who will be voting next. It is to be hoped that in the settlement of an issue which has assumed such proportions the serious comment of the non-voting but straight thinking students will be treated with the consideration it merits...
...earnings except interest on Radio Corp.'s very moderate indebtedness. Besides, he could swap his one and one-fifth shares of new preferred for six shares of new common, and he had one share of new common thrown in as a gift. Assuming that he would convert his stock, what he would get would be seven shares of common for each Class B share...
Major problem, for both Class B and for common holders, was the prospective increase in common shares, assuming that Class B holders would take their new preferred and convert it. From some 13,100,000 shares, capitalization would rise to some 18,500,000 shares. This meant about a 41% increase in common shares, and some 5,400,000 new shares among which to divide the profits. Radio Corp.'s 1935 earnings, announced along with the plan's presentation, amounted to $5,100,000. Assuming (recklessly) that Mr. Sarnoff was willing to pay out all his profits...
...Birmingham counted on Dr. Kagawa making another flying trip South. Other Southern and Eastern cities had him down for addresses before he was to appear, early in February, at another co-operative meeting in Kansas City. The Illinois Council of Religious Education was listed for a speech by the convert Christian who has written more than 50 books, many of them Japanese best sellers...
...Manuel Luis Quezon's other achievements, you make mention of the fact that he had at one time been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Islands. It seems unfortunate that you left out this fact: last year President Quezon became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. DON SUTHERLAND...