Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still another murder of the incredible Stavisky Saga. Kept from the French Press, the details were revealed by foreign correspondents. Before 1926, according to Deputy Henriot, Swindler Stavisky entered into relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean Galmot, from French Guiana. Galmot, a Wartime rumrunner, turned a handsome profit before developing political ambitions. With 800,000 francs, lent by Sacha Stavisky, Jean Galmot became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would...
...latest innovation was almost the first man Rolls-Royce of America ever hired. John Swanel Inskip began selling Rolls-Royces in 1922. Grey-haired, affable, popular, he was elected president in 1929 just before the lean Rolls' years began. Best Rolls' year was 1926 when the net profit was $524,000. Poorest was 1931. when its deficit reached $745,000. No dividend has ever been paid on the common stock (controlled by Rolls-Royce, Ltd. of England), whereas unpaid cumulative dividends on the preferred now total $78.75 per share. Last week there was no Brewster in Brewster...
...increasing the funds available for student aid, and the need for better distribution of all funds that are made available. President Conant and Financial Vice-President Lowes have begun a campaign to raise money among the Harvard alumni. With Henry L. Shattuck, Treasurer of the Corporation, reporting an operating profit of $475,000 for the fiscal year 1932-33, some of the University's funds might well be applied, temporarily at least, to meet the unprecedented need for financial assistance. Distribution of all funds, scholarships, aids, loans, and employment, should be in the hands of one consolidated body, as Dean...
...loan to France after Napoleon's first defeat, sent the market down by selling his own government bonds when his bid was refused. Statesmen like Metternich had, as the picture shows, agreed with Baring Brothers, London bankers, to handle some of the bonds privately for their own profit. When Rothschild sent the prices down, Baring Brothers called on the statesmen to put up the cash for their securities. When they failed to do so, the loan fell through entirely...
...effort to "incorporate" and to "organize" the state means, in the modern context of opposed class interests, the choice of one of those classes. Mr. Roosevelt can come out baldly for the industrialists, forbid the right of strike, set wages, and run the whole private profit economic structure with the iron hand, not of court orders and injunctions, but of executive dictatorship. Or he can encourage and strengthen labor to the point where it will revolt, not only against the profit system, but against his own middle of the road administration, and another executive dictatorship, in the interests...