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...would suggest, therefore, that it would be in order for your board to declare a quarterly dividend equal to 20% annually. . . . Please be good enough to promptly confirm this arrangement. . . ." And its reply: "As you are aware, a dividend of this amount has not been earned. In ad dition to that, the trust company is setting up no reserves and we feel that it is not as it should be." Mr. Pecora: Don't you think that your suggestions for a dividend rate for the units were looked upon as an order from the throne? Mr. Lord: I assumed...
...leisure. Then comes restlessness. He walks the streets, goes home to pace his floor, bite his nails, throw things at his wife. Gradually this energy wears itself out. He stops shaving, becomes dirty, slovenly, sodden. He looks at the world out of dull, defeated eyes. For this con dition psychologists have a new term : un employment shock...
...Mazatlan U. S. Vice Consul J. Winsor Ives made urgent repre- sentations to the Governor of Nayarit and the military authorities of the State asking speedy punishment of the bandit criminals. He also wired Teacher Anderson's relatives informing them of her serious con- dition and subsequent death. Then he reported the outrage to Wash- ington...
...prices have led to considerable curtailment of the farmers' plantings. This year's cold and rainy Spring has had the further important effect of considerably retarding the crops, and in consequence the Government's condition estimates are placed at very low figures. For Winter wheat, con dition is estimated at only 74% - the lowest since 1917 when the figure of 70.9 was reached. Even worse is the estimate of condition of Spring wheat at 82.3-lower than any year for twelve years, and considerably under the 88.2 figure of 1916. Acreages have also been reduced sharply; that...