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Last week the stockholders of Container Corp. of America received a printed postcard from their company, beginning with the well-worn refrain: "It is our policy to give our stockholders full information at all times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited...
Some 3,000 music-lovers who jammed the doors of the sawdust-covered stock pavilion of University of Wisconsin's agricultural college forced curly-haired Violinist Fritz Kreisler to slog through mud to a rear entrance, postpone his concert until he had his shoes shined...
...first time in U. S. history, a President motored from the White House to his office. Reason: Washington's 12-in. snowfall last week. Rather than slog through the drifts from the White House to his office in the State, War & Navy building, just across the side street, President Hoover entered his limousine, drove circuitously around the block...