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...peculiar appeal to people with an itch for quick money has the 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...
...route lay through Fall River where the President paid tribute to its native son, his late friend and No. 1 Secretary Louis McHenry Howe. At Fairhaven the President lunched with his mother who had opened the old Delano house for the occasion. From this strictly family party, Governor Curley and other politicians were excluded. There Secret Service men put their foot down, decreed that automobile racing must cease, wired ahead to Boston to call out the National Guard to keep the route clear. At every stop, there were big crowds, mill hands who had demanded and got holidays...
Bilodeau, of Dorchester, is on the football and hockey teams and was on the Council last year. Dubiel from Fairhaven, was on the council last year and is captain of football...
Emile Dubiel '37, of Fairhaven was elected captain of the Freshman track and field team yesterday afternoon. Dubiel, who prepared at Fairhaven High, has starred in all the meets this year, scoring 26 points against Andover when he took four firsts and two seconds...
...Atlas Tack's main plant is in Fairhaven, Mass., birthplace of the late Standard Oilman Henry Huddleston Rogers, who returned to rebuild and landscape his home town and incidentally to buy Atlas. But his family sold Atlas to some Boston bankers in 1920; rugs grew more popular than carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets...