Word: share
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Interlocking agencies, the Tariff Association and Taxpayers League share the same Washington 'offices, the same office staff, the same cash solicitors. Their collections are pooled. Their field agents last year brought in $209,586. In return they supplied contributors with "educational bulletins" on tax and tariff matters, gave "expert" advice on fiscal affairs. Sample expenditure: $700 to Frank D. Mondell, onetime Republican floor leader of the House, now a lobbying lawyer, to urge a higher duty on peanuts before the tariff commission. The sum of $77,936.44 went to Lobbyist Arnold and his three chief assistants, one of whom...
...Then, last week, the proposed absorption of Corn Exchange Bank fell through. Merger terms permitted Corn Exchangers either to exchange their stock for National City on a four-fifths for one basis or to receive $360 a share each. When the Market crashed, Corn Exchange stock accompanied it, at one time reaching a low of $160 per share. Obviously Corn Exchangers would gladly take $360 a share for their stock; equally obvious was National City's reluctance to buy up the entire Cora Exchange capitalization at a point far above its market value. Therefore National City stockholders refused to ratify...
...That speculation had been encouraged by the over-conservative financial reports of corporations. There have always been dishonest concerns which rig their books to show $1 per share profit when actually there was no profit. But suppose an ultra-conservative concern, by scaling its assets to minimum and carrying the liabilities at maximum, shows $1 per share profit when someone else thinks they might presumably have shown $2 per share profit; then the incentive to imagination and hence speculation is great and obvious...
Conceived in the real spirit of international cooperation, it introduces a new era in world relations. Harmonizing with the spirit of the League of Nations covenant, and consistent with the policy of open-handed diplomacy, this is only another, though perhaps the best, example of desire among nations to share equally the brunt of the world's problems...
...blackboard talk opened the afternoon session and was followed by individual instruction: The Crimson passing attack then came in for its share of attention as Coaches Horween and Casey continued the work of ironing out the rough spots in the Harvard aerial game. Lateral passing, which has not played such a prominent part in the Crimson offensive this year, was emphasized...