Word: thinke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chrysler paid $8 per share, their quarterly dividend should be at least $2. It seems that I have lost money on that basis. I have only received $1, $1.50, $1.50 for the last three dividends on Chrysler stock. Maybe these weren't quarterly dividends but I think so. Even so it's a damn fine corporation...
...lost out at 50 (when the old New York World expired), came back as Henry Morgenthau's trusted man Friday. Because he clamped down on departmental publicity in 1933, he rates as a stuffed shirt in the ribald, nude-daubed Treasury press room. But columnists and other "think piece" composers who value the long view applaud his emergence as Treasury No. 3 man (No. 2: Under Secretary John Hanes...
...Field Marshal announced nothing concrete about raw materials, nor did he clarify German-Russian relations. Jeers at the blockade were scarcely enough to a generation that remembered the starvation of 1918. Violence of his denunciations of British leaflet propaganda dumped on Germany suggested an underlying fear of it: "To think these laughable flyleaves might have any effect! Chamberlain may know something about umbrellas, but he knows nothing about German propaganda. . . . No, Mr. Chamberlain, we want peace, but giving up the Führer, as others think we might, is too big a price to pay for peace...
...plays in his underwear. Says he : "I really think we've got a great mission here, but we have to work hard. The carillon is a folk instrument. It sings with the people...
...telegram: "Maurice Baring passed away peacefully this afternoon." At Gosse's Marsh heard Artist-Writer Max Beerbohm explain the diminutive figures in William Orpen's pictures: because Orpen was so short. "He sits down to paint, and says, 'Now I'll do a tremendously big fellow, I should think about five foot...