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...campaign with a machine high-powered, smooth-running, up-to-date. To compete with it, the new firm of Landon & Hamilton inherited a 1932 model apparatus, battered by its last two collisions with the Democratic juggernaut, rusted by inaction and despair. John Hamilton's job came nearer to being one of rebuilding than of repair...
...first half since 1929. However, earned surplus, out of which dividend arrears would have to be paid, still amounted to only about a third of the arrearage. In July Goodrich directors proposed a recapitalization plan by which preferred stockholders would give up their birds in the bushes for birds nearer to hand. Each share of 7% $100 par preferred would get 1.4 shares of new $5 no par preferred, leaving the annual dividend prospect unchanged at $7. For waiving accumulated dividends of $35 a share stockholders would receive half a share of common stock which sold last week...
...George Tatarescu "reconstructed"' his Cabinet to leave out Titulescu. No European statesman doubted last week that this marked a great shift in the Continent's balance of power, a drawing of Rumania away from France and a tendency toward reorientation of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Yugoslavia) nearer to Germany as the prestige of "Aryan" Hitler waxes and that of Jew Blum is in doubt even at Paris...
Sirs: Jeanette MacDonald has decidedly beautiful and not at all unduly prominent teeth. . . . Her voice is remarkably true and pure. . . . In Saw Francisco she sings Nearer, My God, To Thee most feelingly and reverentially. Is it possible that you would permit your reviewer to use your columns to vent personal animus and spite...
...feeling of disgust that I read your review of the motion picture, San Francisco. ... I think TIME sounds a bit ignorant and not at all funny when it refers to Miss MacDonald's very fine performance as "acting with her teeth" and to her exceedingly lovely rendition of Nearer, My God, To Thee as "yodeling." The earthquake scene is a very creditable piece of cinematic engineering, but without the beautiful voice of Jeanette MacDonald ... it would never achieve the audience response which it does...