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Three-for-One. The more usual variety of stock split-up was reported by Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts, Ltd., of Canada, shareholders approving a three-for-one split-up, with rights. Hiram Walker is, of course, famed as whiskey-maker. U. S. interest in the split-up was keen in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Split-tips | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Dyer's Flyer | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Yet as the debate progressed, as its first day wore into its second and its second into its third, Senator Borah's position appeared to grow hourly more on the defensive. The bill was being "pounded," the Senator was being "heckled," the "treaty foes" were "hurling" questions, suggestions, criticisms. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Treaty Maltreated | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

It was no "sick man of Europe" who attacked Greece in 1822. It was the conquering greedy Turk, bloody scimitar in hand, who hacked his way through the country, finally battered at the walls of Argos. Demetrios Ypsilanti held the citadel with 300 henchmen against 30,000 Turks. For three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Ypsilanti | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

Several witnesses, including Senator Kendrick of Wyoming, President Amos Leonidas Beaty of the Texas Oil Co. and Edward Clingan Finney, Assistant Secretary of the Interior, gave testimony showing how Fall kept the Sinclair lease secret, even from his chief lieutenant, in such a way as to bar out other bidders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Oil Forever | 4/23/1928 | See Source »

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