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Last year 6,000,000 U. S. residents took out fishing licenses. Probably twice that number went fishing. They spent more than $10,000,000 on tackle alone* (twice the amount they spent in 1933). Major reason for the current spurt is a vogue for deep-sea angling, increasingly popular in the past five years since it has been dramatized in newsreels and publicized by fishermen like Zane Grey, Ernest Hemingway and Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Chase National's bristle-haired Winthrop Aldrich (also a lawyer before he was a banker) as usual took on the job of stating banking's case. Said he: "The fact that total commercial, industrial and agricultural loans have failed to rise in proportion to the great increase in demand deposits, has been cited by many as evidence of a reluctance on the part of the banking community to meet legitimate credit needs. ... In no true sense can credit be 'created' by banks. . . . There must be in the first place willing borrowers...
John Alford Stevenson is a refutation of George Bernard Shaw's quip: "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." Getting a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1928, he began a teaching career which eventually took him to the Carnegie Institute's School of Life Insurance Salesmanship as director...
Last week, with his usual tartness, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas took a fling at directors in general and McKesson & Robbins directors in particular. Plumping for responsible paid directors who would give real attention to their jobs, he urged U. S. corporations to go out and find men who would represent stockholders rather than management or banks. Although there might be plenty of practical problems in staffing directorates with paid "outsiders" (not part of the management) who had the time to know intimately the business they directed, Mr. Douglas said pertinently...
Generalissimo Francisco Franco's guns blasting a path into the city filled Barcelona with a constant rumble, drowned out at hourly intervals by his bombers which swept upon the city in relays and took and estimated 100 casualties in 12 raids...