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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When newshawks asked him what economies he hoped to make he furnished them first with a list of economies that were not to be. No savings could be made in interest on the public debt, none by reducing Federal salaries. None could be made by furloughing employes nor by discharges. None in Relief. Few or none in the regular departments of the Government. He expected that half of fiscal 1938's approximate $8,000,000,000 would be spent. On the other half he hoped that 10% or $400,000,000 would be saved. How? By delaying in hiring...
...long educational decline was climaxed under the presidency of one-time (1930-33) U. S. Prohibition Administrator Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, who resigned two months ago after a squabble with the Board of Governors. Under the reign of President Woodcock, St. John's was removed from the accredited list of the Middle States Association of Colleges for graduating in 1935 a student who had failed to pass his final examinations. Writing this year in the Baltimore Sun on the history of the University of Maryland, of which St. John's was a part from 1907 to 1920, tart...
...could. She flew for fun, flew for publicity. While flying for Beechnut Products she made headlines by cracking up an autogiro, nearest thing to a foolproof aircraft. But she learned to fly so well that she became the world's No. i woman flyer, rolled up an impressive list of "firsts...
Latest addition to this list was Standard Brands which last week offered through a Morgan Stanley & Co. syndicate 200,000 shares of $4.50 cumulative preferred stock at $95 per share. It happened to be Morgan Stanley's first flotation of preferred stock in its two years of underwriting history...
...Birdsboro employs 800 men, had gross sales of $3,000,000 last year, net income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock for the convenience of present owners, mostly family members and widely scattered...