Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American College of Surgeons, American College of Physicians, American Medical Association all bind their members not to split fees. Nevertheless, the practice of dichotomy-by which one physician refers a patient to another for a price-is almost as widespread in the U. S. as it is in France, where it has been regulated. So flagrant has the practice become in New York City, where medical competition is keen and many a physician has to scratch gravel to survive, that last week the president of the Association of Private Hospitals Inc. called in the press to expostulate...
...passed was another one which has not yet reached the Supreme Court but was held unconstitutional by a lower court. Meantime the railroads and the Railway Labor Executives Association have been trying to get together on a mutually acceptable agreement to obviate the necessity of further legislation. They are split on a number of details, chiefly on whether the retirement age is to be 65 or 70, a vital point since thousands of railroad men are close to retirement age right...
With the script of Hard Pan in his pocket, Dress Manufacturer Polisuk next approached Producer Sam H. Harris who was persuaded to split production costs with him. Producer Harris called in George Kaufman to doctor Hard Pan and George Kaufman, the Great Collaborator, called in Laurence Stallings (collaborator of What Price Glory?) to help. Hard Pan was rewritten three times and renamed Eldorado. It was opened in 1931 with a split week in New Haven and Hartford, Conn. It then limped into Newark and folded up. Messrs. Kaufman & Stallings, who were to have received one-third of the profits...
...secure preferred shares of these companies Edison will offer new Edison stock in exchange. Likewise, the two-thirds interest in Public Service not held by Edison will be acquired through an exchange offer. Edison stock, now selling at $133 per share, will be split four-for-one, the authorized issue doubled to provide the stock needed for the exchange offers. To redeem stock not exchanged and to refund some debts of Edison and its affiliates, a $13,000,000 issue of convertible debentures was authorized...
...another and more famed banking scion was promoted in another institution identified with family. Made board chairman of Old Colony Trust Co. was T. (for Thomas) Jefferson Coolidgc, whose lineage is longer than Banker Smith's but whose bank was founded by his father, not grandfather. Since he split with the New Deal, the onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury has been an Old Colony vice president. Banker Coolidge as board chairman succeeded Gordon Abbott, who retired after 43 years in the institution...