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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent months various newshawks have more than once thought they detected signs of the disease of Presidents in Franklin Roosevelt. Last week most of them were sure. The middling-sized businessmen who compose the rank & file of the Chamber of Commerce-who for more than a year have opposed many aspects of the New Deal, but who, for diplomatic reasons, have previously been kept by their tycoon leaders from expressing their feelings-had finally ridden roughshod over those who counseled them to speak softly, had passed a set of resolutions bluntly objecting to the Administration's banking, utilities...
Henry Ford has yet to file his balance sheets with certain State officials, only source of Ford figures. But a strong hint of which way the Ford wind blew in 1934 came last week when Ford of Canada reported the first profit since 1930-$1,878,000 as contrasted with a $620,000 loss in 1933, a $5,200,000 loss in 1932. Bigger in assets ($56,000,000) and in sales (48,900 units last year) than many an independent U. S. motor company, Ford of Canada is supposed to be about 50% owned by Henry Ford. Lately...
Prospects of a steel strike amounted to little more than some loud bluster by William J. Spang, leader of Steel's "rank & file." But his first job was not to coerce steelmasters but to settle his factional feud with Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers' old President Michael Tighe...
...research plants in this country. Whether or not it deserves this praise, Widener's function, among others, is to provide adequate material for scholars who would delve into the past and collect material for future scholars. In seeking to fulfill this function the library subscribes to and keeps on file a number of supposedly representative periodicals. It does not subscribe to a paper directed by the Hearst policy...
...heiress ($20,000,000) of the late F. W. Woolworth; from "Prince" Alexis Mdivani, 31, divorced husband of Louise Astor Van Alen. Married in 1933, they were often separated, often reported about to divorce. In London last week, whence she was about to sail for the U. S. to file suit in Reno, "Princess" Mdivani said: "We agreed to part only legally. . . . Alec to me is one of the finest men I have ever known. . . . No man could be nobler...