Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Negroes' post-slavery discovery of industry and thrift spoiled this. 3) The "Grandfather clause"-admitting to suffrage any man who voted in 1867 or before, or was one son or grandson of such a man. The practical effect, if not the technical process, of denying Negroes a share in the government is, of course, a violation of the 14th and 18th Amendments to the U. S. Constitution. It has become trite to point out the inconsistency of such nullification by citizens who prate about the sanctity of the 18th Amendment. Last week's dark plaintiffs in Texas will...
...outstanding feature of the opening address of Governor-General Henry L. Stimson to the Philippine Legislature, published last week by the U. S. War Department, was a long quotation from a survey-report of the Islands by Vice President Lyman P. Hammond of the Electric Bond & Share Co. (part of the so-called U. S. "Power Trust"). The Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion...
...time opponent of "foreign" capital in the Philippines, applauded the Stimson document; said that the law changes suggested should not be difficult to effect. This was good news to such outreaching U. S. interests as the Firestones of Ohio (rubber) and doubtless Surveyor Hammond's Electric Bond & Share...
Memorable was the July 19 balance sheet of the Bancitaly Corp., showing six months' earnings of $35,233,552, more than Bancitaly has ever earned in a full year. Holders of Bancitaly's 5,200,000 outstanding shares may expect, if the same level is maintained until January, that the corporation will have earned $13 on each share, twelve percent on the present market price...
...square foot. At this rate, all the 2,800,000 square feet on which the Illinois Central controls the air rights would produce an annual 5% rental of $6,300,000 or a revenue sufficient to pay more than $4.75 on each share of its common stock...