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...stock of Atlas Tack Corp., a little Fairhaven, Mass, concern whose volatile shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Four years ago, by high-powered manipulation which attracted the attention of New York's Attorney General and later drew Federal mail fraud indictments. Atlas Tack was crow-barred from about $2 to $28 per share in less than a twelvemonth. That rousing performance was almost duplicated in 1935, the stock rising in less than four months from around $9 to above $30 per share. And this time the Securities & Exchange Commission undertook a study of Tack...
...crow flies between New Orleans and Kansas City the distance is 650 mi. From Kansas City to Port Arthur, Tex. it is 625 mi., from Port Arthur to New Orleans 250 mi. Near the centre of this big southwestern triangle is a man-made lake near Hot Springs, Ark. called Catherine. On an island in the lake is Couchwood, the spacious summer home of Utilities Tycoon Harvey Crowley Couch, onetime (1932-34) RFC director, chair-man of Louisiana & Arkansas Ry. and Arkansas' richest citizen. The four C's in Harvey Couch's book read: "Courage, Confidence, Concentration...
...election was a great triumph for Kansas City's Democratic machine. Its endorsees swept all offices: Lloyd Crow Stark was elected Governor, 12 Democrats were elected to Missouri's 13 seats in the House of Representatives. Kansas City with only 10% of Missouri's population gave Roosevelt 30% of his majority in the State...
...enterprising bachelor realtor who is St. Louis' mayor until at least April 6 (municipal election day), last week literally was in a smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...
...physicians. The decision practically canceled the whole series of "Comstock laws." Reluctant to yield to reversal of a 63-year-old U. S. prohibition, Government lawyers appealed to the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in Manhattan, who last week upheld the Moscowitz decision, enabled Mrs. Sanger to crow: "Contraceptive material may be lawfully admitted into this country and disseminated, if intended for legitimate...