Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime Democratic item in the economy bill was a consolidation of the Army & Navy into a Department of National Defense which was supposed to save at least $50,000,000 per year. By a vote of 153-to-135 the House rejected such a merger, much to the satisfaction of President Hoover and Secretaries Hurley and Adams. Other things the House did pleasing to the President were to provide for consolidation of public works activities and to authorize the White House to merge overlapping departmental agencies...
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...week the New York Sun again took up the matter of publicity, commented upon the fact that the 1931 reports of General Foods and National Dairy Products Corp. did not contain volume of sales for the year, both having been granted permission by the Exchange to omit the item...
...incident Wall Street saw a resurgence of the old question of what stockholders should know. While it is true that most stockholders do not analyze a company, the biggest ones do and feel they are entitled to adequate data. They feel that such an item as sales is not a real secret, can always be learned by a competitor...
Most notable news exploit of the Times occurred recently in the parole of one Jesse Lucas who had been in prison 23 years for murder. Sharp-eyed Editor Richard James Finnegan read a small item in the Tribune telling of the deathbed confession of the murder by another man. He dug up two female witnesses who had testified against Lucas, got them to confess perjury. Now Lucas is out of jail, making quilts which Times girl employes are helping to sell. Meanwhile Editor Finnegan is personally presenting Lucas' case for full pardon...