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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Defense Act of 1917 established a board to investigate previous awards of the Congressional Medal of Honor. The board disallowed all 864 medals promised those of the 27th Maine Volunteer Infantry who would re-enlist in 1863, but given even to those who went home. Also canceled were the 29 Medals bestowed in a moment of patriotic inadvertence on Lincoln's funeral escort. The board also rescinded Dr. Walker's award. No civilian has ever received the Medal legally. Charles Augustus Lindbergh rated one because he had belonged to the reserve air force long before his Paris...
Opened last week with columns & columns of speculation was the annual season for trying to figure out how much money Henry Ford made in the previous year. Basic element in this statistical sport is the balance sheet which Ford Motor Co. has to file to do business in certain States. Starting points in the game are changes in surplus and reserves. These are also the stopping point because there is no way of telling what charges were made against these accounts or how much was paid in dividends to the two stockholders, Henry Ford and Son Edsel...
Never before have bond prices been so high, bond yields so low. The previous high was around 1900, when high-grade issues sold to yield something less than 4%. At that time the best opinion was that low interest rates would continue for the first two decades of the 20th Century. The experts were dead wrong. Interest rates rose and bond prices fell almost without interruption until the post-War depression. Through most of the 1920's bonds climbed steadily, then started to fall again when money tightened during the last purple days of the stockmarket boom. The present...
...will leave New Zealand the only country in the world with more than 100,000 subscribers which does not have radio-telephone communication with the U. S.* From an A. T. & T. radio station at Dixon, Calif, calls will go direct from the U. S. to Shanghai removing the previous necessity of routing them through Japan. Switchboard work at the U. S. end will be done in the company's Chinatown office in San Francisco...
After a successful run in New York "Parnell" has been brought to the Shubert Theatre as the last of this year's series of drama offerings by the Theatre Guild in connection with the American Theatre Society. Maintaining the high level of artistic achievement attained by such previous members of the series as "Winterset," "Porgy and Bess" and "The Taming of the Shrew" it provides a thoroughly satisfying conclusion to a long and varied theatrical season...