Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the preferred stock, now dividendless, sold as low as 21 while the common, now Durantless, went to 4. Although both stocks had already suffered during the break, last week's decline had its own reason-"friendly" receivers were appointed as the result of a petition by Bethlehem Steel Corp., said to be a $400,000 creditor. In this receivership there was not evident the aftermath of the market's break, as had been true in the Fox trusteeship (TIME, Dec. 16), nor of poor trade conditions as in the American Piano receivership (see p. 30). There...
...Dinner of the Bohemians of Chicago, a musicians' club, to Frederick Stock on his 25th anniversary as conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra...
...Esther is the grand champion shorthorn cow in Argentina's forty-first national live stock exhibition and is more truly a national figure than any Miss America has ever been, with her name on every tongue . in Argentine, including the furthest frontiers and hamlets...
...Stock companies are often pitiful, struggling organizations. Their managers bear incalculable woes. One of these was voiced last week by George J. Houtain, counsel for the Theatrical Stock Managers Association. Declaring in a letter to the American Federation of Musicians that prohibitive union wages and regulations had made music scarce in stock productions, he added: "If a phonograph needed operating behind scenes, you wouldn't allow the manager or one of the company to turn it on or off. . . . It had to be done by a union musician at a full week's wage, and he wasn...
Sender of the C. O. D. consignment is Carl Joys Lomen, President of the Lomen Reindeer Corp., in which are also engaged his four brothers, George, Harry, Ralph and Alfred. He was born in southern Minnesota of Norwegian stock, was raised to follow his father into law. In the summer of 1900, after much persuasion, the elder Lomen took Carl to Nome for the summer. The Nome gold rush was in progress and Lomen Sr. found many a client there while his son prospected the territory. Their visit lasted two years, then father and son returned to St. Paul...