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...however, were able to keep the proceedings on this elevated plane. Senator William H. Dieterich, onetime school- teacher and alderman of Rushville, Ill., the very cartoon of a porcine, "practical" politician, was inclined to grunt at witnesses. Originally noncommittal on the President's Plan, he lately got a bit of patronage in the form of an appointment to a Federal judgeship. and by last week he was dutifully surly toward the Opposition. To those whose answers did not suit him, the tone of his retorts was rough. At one point Professor Griswold of Harvard said...
...more than might be expected from a chainstore with 15,000 outlets and annual sales of nearly $1,000,000,000 was this shrewd bit of foresight. Outlawing price discrimination and many another favor long demanded by the country's big buyers, the Robinson-Patman Act is fundamentally anti-chainstore legislation. Sure enough, in its efforts to retain at least a measure of the advantages of large-scale buying, A. & P. was soon enmeshed in Federal Trade Commission proceedings, dragging in a number of ifs suppliers, who are equally liable under...
...same time Mr. Verity asked his stockholders to approve a timely bit of financial thrift in the form of a $45,000,000 preferred stock issue. Part of the money will be used for expansion, including a rolling mill in Australia, the rest for retirement of outstanding bonds and old preferred stock. The refunding will probably save the company something in money costs and leave it in that rare position, a steel company virtually free of funded debt...
...shot of Whalen attired in a donkey's head and Hudson crowned with an admiral's hat riding home in a milk wagon early in the morning. Squeezed in behind them is an enthusiastic three piece orchestra and a crooner. This will either strike you as the funniest bit of farce in recent months or the stupidest. At any rate, it is extraordinary...
Seven rambunctious Canadian mothers with a total of 65 children have been champing at the bit for four months demanding a verdict in the $500,000 Toronto Stork Derby (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), which concluded last Halloween. Last week they heard with relief that positively no claims filed after April 8 will be valid. That hearty, Rabelaisian character Mrs. Martin Kenny, mother of eleven, was keeping the Canadian press in convulsions by telling reporters: "I know positively that I am going to have the most children at one time. ... I never felt like this before with...