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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week it was the embarrassing task of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency's fourth-generation head to discuss that law in Washington before the Senate committee investigating labor spying and coercion (TIME, Feb. 8). From the agency's instruction book, Committee Chairman La Follette read an item order-ing operatives to submit their bills to Government officials on "plain paper...
...personnel that enabled them to take the league title without a defeat last year, but the loss by graduation of Bill Nash has changed them into a second place club. A loss at the hands of Harvard will mean that they will be displaced, however, and will drop to fourth place...
...objectivity will be the religion of the future. Very soon the nations on earth will turn to it in thought and feeling and develop such intuitive powers which lead them to harmony." Owner of most of these non-objects, Solomon Guggenheim, celebrated his 76th birthday last week. Fourth of the seven sons of old Meyer Guggenheim, Colorado mining tycoon, he was one of the most active members in developing the Guggenheim copper empire. He is still a director in half-a-dozen mining companies besides holding a partnership in Guggenheim Bros. He has served as board chairman of American Smelting...
First was Woman's Home Companion (2,848,550), second Ladies' Home Journal (2,786,219), third McCall's (2,501,074)-(see below). Fourth was Pictorial Review with 2,108,579. When 69-year-old Delineator came fifth with 1,487,118, magazine dockers sensed that the field was overcrowded, knew that some one would have to be ruled off the track. Last week the new magazine line-up for ladies became known. Pending approval by stockholders this week, Delineator was to be liquidated, its readership swallowed by Pictorial Review, to give that Hearst property...
Even that lumbering colossus, U. S. Steel Corp., outdistanced most Wall Street dopesters, turning in a $20,000,000 fourth quarter with operations at 66.2% finished capacity. Profits for the full year footed up to $50,525,000, largest since 1930 and a phenomenal improvement over the piffling $1,146,000 earned last year. On the strength of this report and the involuntary aid of a flock of bears caught short of the stock, U. S. Steel was run up to $100 per share, par, highest price in six years...