Word: error
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lamentably, Mr. Dohr has not only committed an error of emphasis, but one of accounting. At the end of 1936 the net worth of Johns-Manville was $35,849,663. The preferred stock has prior claim to $9,000,000 of this, leaving $26,849,663 for the common. Mr. Dohr divides this figure by the 850,000 shares now outstanding and gets a book value of $31 a share. He forgets that the common was sold for $100 a share. As the capitalization increased to 850,000 shares, assets increased by $10,000,000. Mr. Dohr should have divided...
Most encouraging feature of the 1938 Mitchell nine is the flawless play of the infield. On the southern trip the combination produced five double plays and against the Terriers fielded without an error...
...this evidently made Floor Leader Alben Barkley so confident that instead of letting the bill come to a final test on Friday, he postponed the roll call over the week end to make his victory all the more one-sided. This almost turned out to be a serious error...
...continent "made propaganda use" of a laudatory letter which they said was written by Dr. Kinsley but which he could not recall writing. But his condemnation of them rested on theological rather than moral grounds. Wrote he: "The Group Movement is so tainted with indifferentism. i.e., with the error that one religion is as good as another, that no Catholic may join in such a movement so as to take any active part therein or formally to cooperate therewith...
...Catholic Church considers its current war against Communism as moral, not partisan. As vigorous an anti-Communist as any churchman in North America is His Eminence Jean Marie Rodrigue Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec. No believer in freedom of the press, where it "accords the license to teach all error, gossip all calumny, and provide revolutionaries with a means to sing the benefits of revolution." Cardinal Villeneuve has been credited with suggesting Quebec's "Padlock Law." By this statute the Attorney General (Premier Maurice Duplessis ) may have any individual's home raided, any organization's office raided...