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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when common dividends were first passed. In 1928 the last preferred dividends were paid and the year ending March 31, 1929, showed a deficit of $235,235. Last July President George Urquhart reported that "decline in demand for pianos which started in 1927 continued through 1928, and in the present year to date...
...that the company will continue to operate so that the Metropolitan will still be Knabe equipped, the Chickering will go to many a home and artists will continue to use Mason & Hamlin. And stockholders were somewhat cheered by the assurance in the receivership petition that although the company at present was "unable to meet its matured debts by reason of lack of working capital and is unable to establish adequate means to borrow money." American Piano is "still solvent...
...Anatomy in Syracuse University. Vassar was chosen by Professor Stiles as the college for his daughter but she chose to study singing, went to Manhattan, thence to Europe. At a party in Paris Hallie Stiles had what she calls her "great luck." The director of the Opera Comique was present and she was asked to sing for him. So impressed was he that he engaged her for the following season to sing Mimi in La Boheme. When that time came she had used all her money; her cook had been buying the food out of her own savings. Even...
...most satisfying artist on the French opera stage. Proudest of all, according to friends, has been her husband, Dickson Greene, son of Grant Dickson Greene, Syracuse foundryman. While she sang in Paris, he worked there as representative of Harper's Bazaar. With Dr. and Mrs. Stiles he was present in Chicago last week to applaud...
Loud was the outcry of U. S. newspaper publishers when Canadian papermakers, prodded by provincial government officials, announced they would have to charge $5 more than $55.20 per ton (the present price) for newsprint (TIME, Dec. 9 et seq.). The American Newspaper Publishers Association made the threatening gesture of inviting Federal investigation. They also made the conciliatory gesture of inviting a committee of the Newsprint Institute of Canada to meet with them in Manhattan and talk things over. Last week the pulpsters replied: Their minds were made up, they would not go to Manhattan to discuss the matter further...