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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Working with Kaufman means working with a perfectionist. Hart called their first job together "The Days of the Terror." The daily schedule was from 10 a. m. "until exhausted," which meant until starved as well, since Kaufman cares nothing for food. They would spend two hours shaping one short sentence, a whole day discussing an exit. Kaufman's working habits are notorious. "In the throes of composition," Collaborator Alexander Woollcott once said, "he seems to crawl up the walls of the apartment in the manner of the late Count Dracula...
...President Edward Sanborn French of B. & M., which has $60,000,000 of debt coming due within five years, Jesse Jones outlined a recapitalization plan to put through before bankruptcy becomes unavoidable. His main proposals...
...holders of the B. & M.'s $103,833,000 first mortgage bonds swap each dollar for 50? of 20-year 4% first mortgage bonds (or cash, if they demand it), 50? of 30-year bonds to pay 4% when it is earned...
This plan would not only cut B. & M.'s fixed charges (from $7,428,555 to $3,428,555) but considerably reduce its fixed debt instead of just postponing the evil day as the Baltimore & Ohio did under its voluntary scaling down last summer...
Married. Lady Anne Hope, 25, daughter of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India; and Lieutenant P. H. J. Southby, R. N., 26, aide to the Marquess, son of Sir Archibald Southby, M. P.; in New Delhi, India. After the ceremony, the Marquess, in viceregal tradition, treated 5,000 Delhi poor to a meal...