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Biggest deficit in last week's flock of reports was Chrysler Corp.'s $11,254,000, comparing with a small profit in 1931. Directors promptly passed the dividend. Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s deficit of $2,544,000-first since the 1921 slump-was caused by losses in its retail stores, Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the home construction division. Last year Sears made $12,170,000. International Harvester, hard hit by dwindling farm income, reported a $7,583,000 deficit. American Water Works & Electric's profits dropped from...
Washington sightseers still flock to the grave in Rock Creek Cemetery where Henry Adams and his wife lie buried, to ask each other tripperish questions about the brooding bronze figure, famed work of Adams' friend Augustus Saint-Gaudens. In accordance with Henry's educated will, "no inscription, date, letters or other attempt at memorial" give curious onlookers any clear hint of what his education amounted...
...them-arrived in Canada leaderless and penniless despite the help given them by British Quakers and by Count Leo Tolstoy who donated the royalties from his novel, Resurrection. Peter Verigin, the Doukhobor leader, was in Siberia but three years later he was released, went to Canada. Thereafter his flock grew numerous and prospered. Their canneries and granaries expanded. Their property became worth $20,000,000 even though Canada took back 360,000 of the now fruitful acres. Peter Verigin aged lustily, riding from village to village in a cart filled with beauteous singing maidens. This was shocking to his wife...
Forty-nine East 65th Street, Manhattan, is not a speakeasy. It is the home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Yet last week an ignorant observer might easily have mistaken its identity as he watched people flock in to see the next President of the U. S. and then flock out again...
Thinking of her flock and her job, distressed Mrs. Brucer wailed: "I can't face those women. I know these 'good Christian women,' and with some of them there is not much Christianity...