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...Diehl Baker and Theodore Roosevelt. The first might be his Democratic opponent in the 1932 presidential race, the second, his running mate. But as the week wore on the national atmosphere became increasingly charged with anxiety. What if the Legion should go on record for immediate payment of the Bonus in full? There were ample indications that it might do so, in the summaries of sentiment among State delegations (see p. 15). The President knew that few members of the 72nd Congress would have the temerity to disregard the Legion's dictates...
...more ridiculous than for you to go down to Detroit with a program of relief for the whole country and at the same time hold out a tin cup. If you do that you will be laughed at. And I say that as a man in favor of the Bonus legislation...
...part of the book deals with what Mr. Flynn thinks are corporate practices. Such famed cases are cited as the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad scandals of 1925, the St. Louis & San Francisco revelations of 1913, the Good year Tire & Rubber reorganization in 1921. Modern examples are the Bethlehem bonus system, the Loft, Inc. management troubles in 1930, the Bank of United States failure and the fall of Banker Rogers Caldwell. Cyrus Stephen Eaton's recently shaken corporate pyra mid is also discussed adversely...
...Government during the revolution had been only $150,000. The rebels had lost $500,000. he estimated, most of it in stores and munitions captured at Gibara (TIME. Aug. 31). To show that his heart was in the right place, last week President Machado split a $60,000 bonus between the troops who were in action during the 15-day campaign...
...Franklin offer involved forming a new company with a capitalization of 600,000 shares of 7% preferred stock and 2,400,000 shares of common. The new capital needed would be raised by sale of 350,000 of the preference shares at $10, purchasers to get a handsome bonus of new common. The present unfortunate owners of U. S. Lines, Inc. preference stock are offered a share-for-share exchange of the new company's common; no provision at all was suggested for the U. S. Lines common stockholders. This stock is entirely owned by Mr. Chapman...