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Were it not for the Federal tax on undistributed earnings some of the present need for new working capital would be supplied from earnings. As it is, the plowing back of capital is a high-priced luxury. Biggest seeker of working capital last week was Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Feeling that it was smart to be thrifty about the undistributed profits tax. President Percy Straus persuaded his directors to authorize an offering of rights to Macy's stockholders in the ratio of one new share for every ten now held, at a price to be announced...
...influence with them. (4) The employer who has not solicited applicants but who may be appealed to by an aggressive, well-planned approach. In order of their relative importance to the average Senior these sources of employment should be ranked in exactly the inverse order. The truly ambitious job-seeker will avail himself of as many of the four means as possible...
...long, closed session, to persuade the Court of Pardons to commute the prisoner's sentence. Next day, declaring the Wendel confession "incredible," Justice Thomas W. Trenchard refused to stay the execution pending its investigation. Meantime the Mercer County Grand Jury headed by one Allyne Freeman, longtime Republican office-seeker and supposed good friend of Governor Hoffman, was weighing the charge of murder against Wendel. At 8 p. m., 20 minutes before Hauptmann was to be led to the electric chair, Foreman Freeman asked the prison warden by telephone to delay the execution until the jury had made...
...Preacher Vincent Burns leaped-up in the courtroom, babbled something about a man having confessed the Lindbergh kidnapping to him. Rushed out of court, Mr. Burns tried unsuccessfully to sell a 10,000-word account of the "confession" to the Press. Said he: '"I am not a seeker of publicity." Two days later he turned up successively in three theatres in Queens, N. Y., performed a marriage on the stage of each, made a speech about the Hauptmann case...
Certain facts, however, stand out in bold relief. Last year's Carnegie survey reported the Sociology Department as one of two sub-standard groups in the college. It is the department most likely to receive the sweepings--the undecided, the cast-off from another department, and the seeker of the "snap" field. Since its origin there has been a great increase in the number of concentrators, but there has been hardly more than a gesture made at increasing its allotment of funds. The double action of expansion within and budget rigidity imposed from without has show up grievous flaws...