Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...maximum rate of 27% on its undistributed profits, another $120,487.80. Total: $269,327.80. Under the 1938 bill, corporations earning more than $25,000 will pay a flat tax of 19% minus 2½% of the amount it distributed in dividends. If Corporation B retains the same share of its profits, it will pay a total...
...experience had been revealed as painfully unequal to his job on the nation's highest tribunal. Mr. Childs wrote that Justice Black's opinions often had to be rephrased by his colleagues to conform to Supreme Court standards; that he had been unable to carry his share of the Court's routine work; and that his presence thus had been "an acute discomfort and embarrassment" to his colleagues. Lawyers, who alone would be able to perceive awkwardness or incompetence in the text or citations of a Supreme Court Justice's opinions, were inclined to agree with...
...Roosevelt is the first U. S. President in modern times to speak really fluent French, and both his mother and his wife share his feelings for La Patrie. Last week, when London put to Washington the idea of permitting Paris to cheapen the franc, thus giving France a competitive advantage in world markets, while holding the dollar and pound at present levels, the hesitations of the President and Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. were brief. Nevertheless, these hesitations were agonizing to Premier Edouard Daladier, for, although most Frenchmen were convinced the franc must be again cheapened, some French...
...largely for new construction, General Foods Corp. sold 150,000 shares of new preferred stock. Offered at $101 a share-through 39 underwriting firms headed by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Lehman Brothers, Brown, Harrison & Co., First Boston Corp., Smith, Barney & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. -the issue promptly went to a premium at $104, was oversubscribed in an hour. C. One of Myron Taylor's prescriptions for U. S. Steel Corp. when he was elected its finance committee chairman in 1927 was a realistic appraisal of its funded debt. In 1929, in the biggest industrial refinancing in U. S. history...
Hunters, fishermen and lovers of the great outdoors are seldom defensive about their tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer...