Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hidden Paris Profit...
...vituperative debate last week preceded a vote in the Tennessee House of Representatives on Impeachment Article No. 1 against Governor Henry Hollis Horton. The charge was that he had conspired with Col. Luke Lea, newspaper publisher, and Rogers Clark Caldwell, financier, to manipulate State funds for their private profit in building up an economic empire in the South (TIME, June 8). In four defunct banks, subsidiaries of the bankrupt Caldwell & Co., Tennessee had some $6,400,000 in public funds tied up. Governor Horton was depicted as bowing to the dictation of Messrs. Lea & Caldwell in return for their political...
What the Crown alleges is that Lord Kylsant did in 1926 and in 1927, by a profit-and-loss account balance sheet, for the form of which we allege he was personally responsible, represent to shareholders and the world in general that in each of those two years the [Royal Mail] group had made large trading profits, whereas it had made serious losses...
...submit that the profit shown by the Royal Mail Steam Packet on the face of the accounts for 1926 is $1,776,625. The true position, we say, including the losses in the subsidiaries, is that there was in 1926 an actual trading loss...
Under the management of Mr. Parson, Woolworth's stores and sales have in creased steadily. Yet the profit from the U. S. stores has dropped during the past four years, with net income being held at a fairly stable figure only by increased "income from securities owned," "interest received," and "undistributed earnings of subsidiaries." How the increased "in come from securities owned" has bolstered up the Woolworth net is shown in the table below...