Word: shared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spurred a Grand Jury investigation of Mississippi's postmasters, 75 of whom were summoned last week to Biloxi to be scrutinized. As everyone knows, Mississippi's Negro Republicans, headed by National Committeeman Perry W. Howard, control their fair share of the South's 25,000 Federal jobs, which aggregate $35,000,000 per annum in salaries. Indictments began, arrests followed for "purchase and sale of public offices...
...large. Not so advertising men. Since their business is that of horn-blowing and drumbeating, they prefer not to roll their own. R. H. Grant, vice president of Chevrolet Motor Car Co., accused them of doing so, asserting that "the advertising man" too often annoys the world by the share he claims in the success of various businesses. This incrimination was received with applause by the humble and clever advertising...
Crackers, Cookies. National Biscuit Co., world's largest biscuit makers, announced that plans were virtually completed for it to acquire control of Christie, Brown & Co., Ltd., biggest makers of crackers, cookies, cakes and puddings in Canada. Basis of the deal: one share of National Biscuit common stock for two shares of Christie, Brown common...
Schooled and approved by Robert Frost, a new poet interprets New England hills and fields and gaunt good folk. Spring plowing he has watched as the turning over of old earth that the sun might shine on new surfaces. Such things he wants to share with "those who love new sods...
Chrysler-Dodge. Col. Calvin Hooker Goddard of Richmond, Va., and Manhattan is a firearms expert.* He knows what is coming to him and he wants to be sure that he will get it. He owns 100 shares of Dodge Brothers preference stock, for which he is eventually entitled to receive $105 a share. But, according to the terms of the Chrysler-Dodge merger, one share of Dodge preference stock is exchanged for one share of Chrysler common. Last week, the market value of Chrysler common was in the vicinity of $70. Col. Goddard, acting with the approval of several other...