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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skull and some differences, therefore put his fossil in the same genus with Australopithecus but in a different species. Name: Australopithecus transvaalensis Broom. One molar which he was able to examine closely showed close affinities to Dryopithecus, a well-known genus of extinct apes. It is from a generalized type of Dryopithecus that most anthropologists believe man evolved...
Paragraphs like this, appearing daily last week under the heading DRESS TO FIT YOUR TYPE on the woman's page of the Hearst Chicago Herald & Examiner, differed from the accepted standards of such journalism in two notable respects: 1) readers applying for the questionnaire were charged 25? for answers; 2) name signed to the column was that of no hack journalist, but of Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also...
...liable to find himself at a distinct social disadvantage. Boston is the home of the oldest investment trust in the U. S.-Boston Personal Property Trust, founded in 1893. Boston is also the home of the open-end or mutual general management trust, which is usually called the "Boston-type trust...
...Boston-type trusts are 1) always in the process of selling more stock to the public and 2) always willing to buy back their stock at approximately its liquidating value. Thus they have the "open-end" feature of fixed trusts, the management feature of common trusts and their own unique feature, redeemable shares. Last week at hearings in Washington, SEC inspected the oldest (1924), biggest ($110,000,000) Boston-type trust in the U. S. - Massachusetts Investors Trust...
...pleasing to Boston-type trusts as it is irritating to other business is the Revenue Act of 1936. Specifically exempted from both income taxes and undistributed profit taxes were" mutual" trusts which pass on to their stockholders all their net income including gains from the sale of securities. Since the law's definition of mutual seems to turn on the redemption feature of the Boston-type trust, other trusts are now engaged in a three-cornered tussle with SEC and the Treasury against what they consider gross discrimination...