Word: share
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thus far the Federal Government has borne the brunt of [Dry] enforcement. It seems to me the Governors' Conference might well consider approaching the Federal Government on some feasible proposal to share this burden. If the National Government were to attend to preventing importation, manufacture and shipment in interstate commerce of intoxicants, the State undertaking the internal police regulations to prevent sales, saloons, speakeasies and so forth, national and state, laws might be modified so as to become reasonably enforceable and one great source of demoralizing and pecuniarily profitable crime removed...
...excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...
...Seven years ago, while he was still founder-president of the since-merged National City Bank of Chicago, Scot Forgan was approached by two young men about to start a new business. They wanted him to buy some of their stock at $25 the share. Looking down his straight strong nose, Banker Forgan declared he could buy no stock. Said he: "I'm just a poor mon and I wor-rk for a sollery...
...company is a corporation, but in the official names of industrial establishments, Co. and Corp. should never be confused. Last week in Brooklyn many a stockholder in a Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. thought himself wealthy, discovered himself tricked. He had bought (at from $25 to $30 a share) stock in Curtiss-Wright Aeronautical Co. He knew that Curtiss and Wright were famed aviation names, were also famed aviation companies. He knew also that Clement Melville Keys' Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Co. had merged with Richard F. Hoyt's Wright Aeronautical Corp. Obvious was the conclusion that his stock represented...
...located (or invented) an airplane mechanic named Curtiss Wright, had christened their company after him. Assets, other than the name, were small. Stock-sale profits, however, should have been considerable. According to the Attorney-General's office, stock was optioned to Broker Cyrus Brin for 66^ a share, reoptioned to Broker H. D. Strahman at $1.25 a share, sold to the public at the $25,130 figure. The company was ordered to change its name and the broking firm of Strahman, Walsh & Brin, Manhattan, was enjoined from further sale of its stock...