Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year.* Last week when the terms of Jesse Straus's will were made known, it was seen that he had given troubled thought to estate taxes. His will, dated May 9, 1933, when the New Deal was only two months old, left 17,100 shares of Macy stock (worth today $855,000) to 18 philanthropic and educational institutions. Beneficiaries included the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies of New York (6,700 shares); Harvard University (3,300); Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital (1,700); Catholic Chari- ties of the Archdiocese of New York (700); Tuskegee Institute...
...goes as Prince to Elsinore he invites comparison with the past performances of flashy favorites. Last week able John Gielgud appeared on Broadway in Guthrie McClintic's Hamlet. True to tradition, play-reviewers threw down their programs, rushed to their form books to weigh Mr. Gielgud's worth against every Hamlet from Barrymore, Forbes-Robertson and Irving to Booth and Burbadge. Consensus seemed to be that next month, when the reviewers sit in judgment on Leslie Howard's portrayal of the gloomy Dane, the name of Gielgud will be added to the list of notable comparative Hamlets...
...altogether, presumably will not make one so long as Franklin D. Roosevelt is in the White House. He refused to take any new checking accounts, offered a good pencil to any depositor with an account of $100 or less who would close it out. He wrote down $24,000 worth of Federal Reserve stock to the insulting figure of 10?. When the temporary Federal Deposit Insurance plan went into effect he became the only Federal Reserve member to hold...
...future the new preferred would further the rich coal carrier's ambition to increase the proportion of stock to bonds in its capitalization. Present ratio is 44% stock, 56% bonds, which is conservative. So far this year C. & O. had refunded at lower interest rates $60,000,000 worth of long-term bonds, incorporating in the new issues sinking fund provisions which will retire the entire amount by maturity. A relatively novel idea in railroad finance, the sinking fund in the case of C. & 0. will be taken care of by the saving in interest charges resulting from...
...store for merchandising advice, mats, layouts, etc. Besides its brokerage commissions IGA receives about $372,500 per year from the wholesalers. The retailer foots this bill for service but he gets the by-product of lower prices, tested goods. And IGA retailers are now selling $400,000,000 worth of goods annually...