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...January when the automobile code came up for renewal, Chairman Williams and the other NIRB business member voted to have the code renewed practically as is. The other three board members voted against it. Thereupon Chairman Williams took his minority report to President Roosevelt, got it approved. Upshot was that pressure chiefly from Labor last week eased Samuel Clay Williams out of a job that he never wanted anyway...
...Upshot was a flimsy agreement whereby Mr. Moffett would see what he could do with private capital before Mr. Ickes takes the field with his Government billions...
Studebaker founded as a wagon works in 1852, was brought low not by the usual affliction of reduced sales, but by a legal snarl over a mid-Depression effort to expand. In 1932 Studebaker purchased White Motor Co. (trucks) only to have the deal blocked by minority White stockholders. Upshot was a receivership. Last week it looked as if Studebaker would be both the first motor maker to shuffle off its financial troubles in court and the biggest reorganization yet completed under the new Federal Bankruptcy Law (TIME, June...
...upshot of the matter, as far as Harvard is concerned, is that Coach Peroy will have to scout around and find at least three new men in addition to his usual quota. He is cheered in his task by the thought that there are six veterans of last year returning to the fencing team and that there is plenty of good material coming up from the Freshman team of last year...
...Rich by native standards, he has a large mud palace, a large black wife, a large dusky family, all he wants to eat, drink, smoke, a good library, a reputation that brings every foreign visitor to his door. But he is not happy. Said he to Seabrook, as the upshot of his life's experience: "In the end it is not well...