Word: pars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Woods, producer). A large but dowdy production with a numerous but inept cast, this unprofessional melodrama appears to be merely a rough preliminary sketch pointed toward a later and more finished film version. Several of the roles are undertaken by minor Hollywood actors, whose performances are about on a par with what is expected in a Works Progress Administration show. A reformed prostitute shoots her high-born but estranged father when he refuses to give her money for her true love, who has been forced to steal $1,000 to send his old mother to a sanatorium...
...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 for $23 a share...
...lettermen returning due to Dubiel's downfall. Bob Daughters, who is coming up from the Freshmen, will be in the thick of the fight, but this Sophomore, though fast and a marvelous pass receiver, will probably need another year of seasoning before his defensive work comes up to par. Ben Smith is the other Freshman who will report on September 15, while Gibson Winter and Joe Kennedy, a pair of Juniors, are all applicants for the post. Unless some shift is made, however, the ends appear to be the weak links in the chains...
...Quebec Province and Mayor Grégoire of Quebec City and said: "Monsieur le Premier Ministre de Quebéc, Monsieur le Maire: "Ces aimables paroles que vous venez de m'adresser au nom de votre grande Province et de votre belle ville, et que vous adressez, par moi, au peuple des États Unis, me touchent projondément et je vous prie de croire que je suis très sensible à la chaleur de votre accueil...
...readers over the first half of last year. Circulation: Sateve-post: 2,972,026; Country Gentleman: 1,534,812; Ladies' Home Journal: 2,786,219. Net profits of the three magazines for the same period were up from $3,773,297 to $4,107,871. Curtis no-par common stock paid 60? a share, as against last year...