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Nearly every day last week the directors of some large corporation made news by voting to increase dividends or to join the ranks of dividend payers for the first time in years. Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway led off with a declaration of $2 on its common stock payable Sept. 1, the first dividend since June 1932. Southwest grain shipments had lifted Santa Fe's freight traffic to the highest point in 20 months. Earnings for the year ended June 30 would approximate $1 per share, said Chairman Samuel Thomas Bledsoe. and the rest of the dividend would...
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 3rd's great-great-great-grandfather was the President from Monticello. His grandmother was a Randolph of Virginia; his grandfather was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and, later, McKinley's Ambassador to France. His father was the founder and president of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa...
There were mysterious doings in the vicinity of Boise City, Okla. last week. An inventor from California, his assistant and a handful of Santa Fe Railroad officials gathered on a lonely stretch of Santa Fe track for a secret test. When the secret was divulged in part, it appeared that two handcars coupled together had traveled seven miles on power transmitted by radio...
...Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman J. N. Tincher; 7) Emporia, Kans. to dine with Republican William Allen White; 8) Topeka, Kans. to visit with Republican Governor Alf Landon; 9) Kansas City to meet Arthur Hyde, his old Secretary of Agriculture...
Died. Dr. Benjamin Franklin Van Meter Jr., 61, of Lexington, Ky., Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, inventor of many a surgical trick, after long illness; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...