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...this point alert Correspondent Harold Brayman of the Philadelphia Public Ledger broke in to ask: "Does your bill touch family trusts...
...people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program of some sort. As a matter of fact his strategy remained that of a general in brave and vigilant retreat, alert to advance at the first sign that, for example, the Great Powers had recovered their sanity to the point of being ready to join in a World monetary stabilization pact. This Dr. Colijn incessantly urges...
...reached your limit." Presumably unqualified for further advancement in Goodrich, he walked over to Diamond Rubber Co. where he got a better job at a better salary. Four years later Diamond Rubber was merged with Goodrich and young Tew found himself back with his old company. Alert, ambitious, quick-thinking, he was soon moved up to the position of works manager and finally, in 1928, became president. Quiet, conservative Mr. Tew kept on living in comparative modesty at nearby Hudson where, always investigating new ways to make rubber, he used to putter with latex on the kitchen stove...
Last week all utilitarians breathed easier when Jesse Jones and his directors stepped out of Public Utilities Securities and Floyd Odium of Atlas Corp. stepped in. Alert Investment Truster Odium had bought Utilities Power & Light debentures at bargain prices, watched them double in value. Since no holder of utility securities wants to have the Government as a partner, Mr. Odium was glad to ease RFC out last week by trading some of his Utilities Power & Light debentures for the securities held by Jesse Jones, thus giving Atlas Corp. working control of the system. Mr. Jones was also pleased because Utilities...
When President Roosevelt impulsively followed up the Supreme Court's Schechter case decision by hinting that AAA might go the way of NRA, alert processing taxpayers began a scramble to the courts. By this week that scramble had become a stampede. Headed by Minneapolis' General Mills, Inc., world's biggest grain millers, and Manchester, N.H.'s Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., world's biggest cotton cloth manufacturers, no less than 117 potent processors had filed suits for recovery of taxes paid or for injunctions against collection of taxes due. With some $10,000,000 in taxes already involved, new suits were piling...