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...However, the particular points upon which the Insulls were indicated are economically of minor importance. The embezzlement and larceny, while they create a moral revulsion in the public mind, are insignificant in comparison with the questionable, though "legal" practices perpetrated by the company in terms of tens of millions of dollars. But the more significant crimes are not amenable to court action under the present laws. It is a sad commentary on our corporation laws that of all the unorthodoxy methods which caused the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars to investors in Insull companies, the only basis...
...being subjected to an extraordinary inquisition. . . . The proceedings before the Governor developed into a travesty, a mock trial, a proceeding in comparison to which even the practice of a drumhead court martial seemed liberal...
...glass eye or was prematurely bald. ... If he were a weakling in any respect he could not have gone through two gruelling campaigns for the Governorship of New York. . . Governor Roosevelt might be handicapped in a footrace but in no other way need he fear comparison with his adversary...
...Comparison. The Republican Prohibition plank adopted three weeks ago caused no one, Wet or Dry, to gibber with excitement. Its 526 words contained a cautious compromise and a large loophole. Like the Democratic plank it shunned the saloon. Like the Democratic plank it provided Federal protection for Dry States and proposed resubmission of the liquor issue by Congress to State conventions "truly representative...
Ford's 1931, Once a year Ford Motor Co. files its balance sheet in Massachusetts. When it was made public last week comparison with 1930's figures showed that during 1931 Ford lost $53,586,000. This figure may or may not have included dividends, the rate of which is never made public. It compared with an indicated profit of $44,460,000 in 1930, $81,797,000 in 1929. In 1927 and 1928 losses of $42,786,000 and $72,221,000 were indicated. For the past six years total profits were...