Word: holders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most famed Wagnerian tenors in Germany, had won personal applause from musical Fuhrer Adolf Hitler. But until two years ago, when he became Hitler's favorite singer, he was practically unknown in the U. S. Egg-bald Laholm, 40, an ex-boxer and heavyweight title holder in the U. S. Navy, exchanged his everyday toupee for a luxuriant blond Nibelung mop and took the stage as Siegmund, leaped upon Hunding's dining-room table like a tomcat after a mouse. His singing, less athletic than his jumps, was fresh and youthful, with less of the buzz saw than...
...good try at it, says Howin Stepp, the coach. The Tigers lost Dick Hough, their record-holding breast stroker, but Ned Parke, who competed in the freestyle events last year--and did very well at them, too--may be rushed into the breach. He originally was a breast stroker, holder of the national interscholastic title at 100 yards while at Lawrenceville. But there are also two Sophomores ready for this event-Bill price and Stewart Pach...
Keith R. Symon '42, Group 1 student and holder of a National Scholarship, has been awarded the Jacob Wendell Scholarship of $500, which is given annually to an outstanding scholar in the Sophomore class regardless of financial need...
Like most other U. S. businesses, Curtis Publishing hit its earnings zenith in 1929, when it reported a net of $21,534,265, an all-time high for any publishing enterprise. Holders of its 7% preferred (of which 722,714 of 900,000 shares are now held by the public) got their dividends as they had for years. Holders of its common got $8 in dividends, felt they had a fine investment in a stock which was selling at $132 before the October crash. But by the depth of the depression in 1932 the dividend on common had dropped...
...return for their benefits." President G. W. Cox of Boston's John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. did what no less potent stockholder could afford. He sent out far & wide among preferred stockholders, lined up opposition votes as far afield as the Midwest. Many another big insurance company, holder of Curtis preferred, girded...