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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweringen appealed for aid in 1935, formed Midamerica Corp., put up $3,121,000 to buy at auction from J. P. Morgan & Co. collateral that had once secured a $39,500,000 loan to the Van Sweringens (TIME, Dec. 14). He went on to tell a lot more: how $274,000 of their purchase price bought 47% control of Alleghany Corp.; how they promptly gave the Vans irrevocable proxy to vote this stock, how they also gave the Vans a ten-year option to buy 8,250 of the 15,000 shares of Midamerica Corp. for $8,250; how they...
...collects paper matches for souvenirs. She takes singing lessons from Andres de Segurola, piano lessons from Frances Minnerick, schools with a tutor in the studio, is nicknamed "Candy," likes to swim and ride. When she goes back to Hollywood she will live in a new house overlooking the Universal lot, with a bedroom walled in glass brick...
...saying that Mr. Hamilton was wrong when he attacked the social security tax on employees, and when he charged the New Deal with being Communistic. But on May 1, 1935, in a New York radio speech, Fish himself declared that Roosevelt had "within 6 months. . brought to Washington a lot of radicals, Socialists, or near Communists." In short, he is condemning Hamilton for doing the same thing that he did himself...
...thing was apparent from the results: the Varsity runners are almost all without exception greatly in need of a litle practice. In fact, if they don't get in a whole lot of practice between now and then, they're sure to be sat on. It's all right for the Freshmen to have a bunch of good runners but when they start beating the captain of the Varsity, they're going too far. And when their relay team beats the Varsity, they're going too far. And when they win the 600, they're--well they've already gone...
...matter of fact, the team seems so bad that it can't be true. That seems to be the safest assumption to go on. We'll just figure that they're due to get a lot better before competition starts. Bill Schmidt ran a lot of good races last year. That he was beaten this year can be attributed only to some sort of fluke. Maybe the track was so slippery that he didn't dare to run his fastest. And the same seems to be the case with Bill O'Connor and Al Hanlon who were beaten...