Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyer Roberts showed that Sinclair valued the lease at $100,000,000 before he got it; that he made $8,000,000 by stock manipulations immediately after getting the lease. These facts were introduced in anticipation of a defense story that Sinclair leased Teapot Dome "reluctantly...
Cried chief and successful Filibusterer the Rt. Hon. Thomas L. Church of Toronto : "We need a Mussolini in Canada to wield a big stick over our big corporations! . . . The additional capital stock which the Bell Company seeks power to issue would never be utilized for extensions or added service to the public, but would be gobbled up in a huge melon split. . . . Outrageous...
Bernard Mannes Baruch Jr., son of the capitalist-philosopher-Democrat (TIME, March 12), purchased for $350,000 a seat on the New York Stock Exchange from Clarence P. Wyckoff. Graduated from Harvard in 1923, young Mr. Baruch has rubber and steel interests...
Since last autumn, the stock-market price of John D. Ryan's* Montana Power Co. shares have gone up and down queerly. Since January 1 their quotations have ranged between $102.25 and $169.50. Last week, trading in the stock became steady at $165.50 a share; and pat upon that situation, Mr. Ryan who theretofore had always smiled mockingly at offers to buy the company, let it be known that he and other directors had agreed to sell out to the American Power & Light Co., for the equivalent of $166 a share. That is, they were trading each of their...
...president. Ever since, the Atchison has paid its preferred dividends. Common dividends began in 1901, with $3.50. They changed successively to $4 $4.50, $6, $5, $5.50, $6, then (3 years ago) $7. For more than a year there have been extra $3 dividends on the common stock. That extra-fruit of "Old Man" Ripley's tillage, of present President William Benson Storey's cultivation-the Atchison directors by their action last week regularized...