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...Last week three places on Loew's directorate were filled by representatives of Film Securities. They were: John E. Searle, Eugene W. Leake, J. R. Hazel. At the annual meeting it was revealed that President Nicholas M. Schenck received 2.5% of last year's net as a bonus, that Treasurer David Bernstein received 1.5%, or $274,000 and $164,000 respectively. Mr. Schenck receives $2,500 a week, Mr. Bernstein $2,000. Shareholders made a motion requesting the directors to consider reducing the bonus payments next year...
...sell $11.600,000 worth of debentures to shareholders-$5 worth for every share held. But the details made the offer practically an assessment. In simple language, the company planned to take away from stockholders 75% of their shares, give back three-quarters of a share as a bonus with each $5 worth of debentures. The stockholder who subscribes to the offer will in effect get his stock back. The one who does not will have a 75% smaller interest in the company...
...budget the desired $61,000,000, was told he must; Andre Citroen (Ford of France) to pay respects (see p. 48); Commander-in-Chief Harold D. Decoe of the Veterans of Foreign Wars to serve notice that his organization would continue to agitate an immediate cash settlement of the Bonus...
...pretty good time as a staff officer in Petrograd and Siberia. He got along well with generals, and his poly-glottism came in handy. When the Russian Revolution ruined Gerhardi pere, the family stayed hard up for years; William went through Oxford on £1000. his demobilization bonus. There he looked about him with a quietly superior eye and wrote most of his first book, Futility, which, it was hoped, would retrieve the family fortunes. It was at Oxford that Gerhardi began to be unimpressed by the great ones of the earth. At the Oxford Union he heard Lord Birkenhead...
National was unquoted although its average price is $17,000 a share. San Francisco Bank carried bank buildings & lots, other real estate and pension funds at $1 each although their actual values are one million times $3. Mellon National Bank pays an annual dividend of $200 plus a "Christmas bonus" of $6 a share...