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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What is left? Are we to see a "twilight" of the Supreme Court? No one recalling the stormy days of the Reorganization debate could answer in the affirmative. The Court will be on in the minds of the people, and that which the people desire and reverence will retain elements of real power. But in what direction will it be exercised? That is the real question. And the answer lies, it may safely be ventured, in a parallel query: what will be the future relationship between the executive and the legislative branches of government...
Rare is the small stockholder who bothers to go to annual stockholders' meetings or even answer proxy requests. So complacent are the stockholders of General Mills Co. ("Gold Medal Flour," "Wheaties," etc.), who have been paid $6 preferred and $3 common dividends-all earned-every year since 1929, that last summer moose-tall, chipmunk-cheeked Chairman James F. Bell arrived speech in hand at his annual meeting, to find 6,716 common stockholders absent,three present...
Last week, SEC gave its answer: denied the application. Byllesby & Co. got 60 days to "make such adjustments as they deem necessary," i.e., get out of Standard Gas and give up its 25% slice of Standard investment issues or register as a holding company and perhaps lay its head on the block for the SEC's death sentence. Said Byllesby Vice President Joseph H. Briggs: "It appears the only course open is liquidation of the voting trust and sale of the stock." From SEC came ominous rumbles that other investment houses may also feel the knout...
...Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...
...answer to a question on the present state of the war. Mr. Lewis said: "I regretted the resignation of Mr. Hore Belisha, because 1 felt that his resignation signified the abandonment of the "static war," so called, which among other people regarded as the bestrategy...