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Died. George F. Hoan, 60, brother of Mayor Daniel Webster Hoan of Milwaukee; by hanging himself in his brother's garage. He had been refused a city job by the Mayor, who did not want to favor a relative in hard times...
Uncertainty of earnings has led to a new dividend practice. Many stocks on a dividend basis are being added to the list of those for which no annual rate can be quoted (Canadian Pacific, American Car & Foundry, Socony-Vacuum, Great Northern, Transamerica, Stone & Webster). Ac- tual rates of such stocks are expected to continue as high as ever...
...Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire marched into the White House, invited President Hoover to dedicate next year a memorial at Franklin, N. H. to mark Daniel Webster's sesquicentennial. The President hemmed & hawed, would promise nothing. Then Senator Moses asked for a contribution to the memorial fund. Promptly President Hoover signed a check for $100. Before going to the Navy Department to get another $100 subscription from Secretary Adams, the Senator issued this bit of mosaic. ''It's not in the cards to take the Republican nomination away from President Hoover...
...public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a gaudy fight with Stone & Webster's Puget Sound Power & Light Co. He has built up a political machine of his own; in fact no man or woman has within recent years been elected Mayor of Seattle without first promising the reappointment of Superintendent Ross. Frank Edwards, running as the "businessman's candidate...
...time came for Webster to make another speech, and the world listened. He arose jauntily enough and began, "Just as a dentist hangs out a great tooth as a sign of his trade, or a druggist displays a mixing bowl as a sign of his, so up in Franconia Notch God has hung out a sign to show that in New Hampshire he makes men." In the cool of many mornings after the sophistry of this remark becomes all too plain, but the kernel of truth that inspired it still remains. The Vagabond has just been up in the "lofty...