Word: plans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Lehman of New York came for lunch and Franklin Roosevelt's understood purpose was to get his sore-tried friend to whoop up the New Deal in his campaign for reelection. Mr. Lehman, unforgetting foe of the Court Plan, returned to his stump with kind words for Franklin Roosevelt but no New Deal honey on his tongue...
...used plenty of fertilizer, rotated his corn, beans, grass crops, grew seed corn under-contract for a wholesale firm, bought a $1,075 tractor on the installment plan to help his two mules and five horses. By the time he was graduated from high school last year, with a four-year average of 92½%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted...
...Elected president of RKO to succeed retiring Lawyer Leo Spitz was bulky, greying, onetime film salesman, George Joseph Schaefer, now distribution head of United Artists. First Schaefer job at RKO: steering the bankrupt company through a reorganization plan which the U. S. District Court is expected to approve this week...
Arthur Curtiss James owns a famous beard and more railroad securities than any man in the U. S. Last week this second possession was substantially cut when the Interstate Commerce Commission approved a reorganization plan for Western Pacific R. R. Co. writing off all its capital stock; at last reports Mr. James through various holding companies owned 40% of the stock, an investment with a par value of about...
...since 1929 has Western Pacific earned enough to cover its fixed charges ($3,634,000 last year). Since 1936 four reorganization plans have been presented by interested parties, one of them being by Chairman James. None satisfied ICC, which finally intervened with a plan of its own-first time it had ever taken such action with so important a railroad. Western Pacific's capitalization now will be reduced from $150,597,000 to $93,726,517, fixed charges to $511,001. This will be accomplished by wiping out the equity of stockholders and claims of unsecured creditors making them...