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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Mr. Cummings cut the umbilical cord between his bank and RFC, announced that Continental Illinois would buy back the last $25,000,000 of its preferred in one batch...
...Last week from Government banksters in Washington came a cry that Continental Illinois is undercapitalized. Its common, which was increased by stock dividends as the preferred was retired in 1936-38, stands at $50,000,000 (its surplus is $20,000,000). This amounts not to the traditional 10% but to only 4.1% of deposits. However, Continental Illinois has nearly as much cash and governments ($1,111,078,283) as deposits ($1,212,371,248) and was as solvent as could be. Onetime RFC Employe Cummings was in a position to tell Boss Jones to go whistle...
Over a glass of beer at the New York World's Fair last summer pretty Florence Mistele, 18, design student, and handsome Richard Graham, 20, actor, hatched a solution to the age-old problem of what to do with one glove after the other is lost. This week their patented answer went on sale at Manhattan's swank Mark Cross Co. (leather goods). It was a glove which looked like a hand's pattern jig-sawed out of a board. It is made by sewing an identical back and palm to a leather ribbon edge. Loose...
...case consisted of some horses that went to the glue factory about 1874. They claimed recently in court that their property was worth $35,000,000, and the court valued it at $6,000,000, but between 1902 and 1939 they collected $250,000,000 rent on their lease. Last week their collections ended although their lease had still 962 years...
...shade of John Graver Johnson and to the 49 underliers the decision was a blow. As late as 1928 the city was on the point of condemning their property for a handsome $149,000,000. But last week the 25,000 underlier stockholders got $31,973,597 worth of bonds bearing 3% interest ($959,207 a year) and another 3% if it is earned. The underliers also got $12,300,000 of preferred stock...