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...have the right paper but the wrong date: the first printed reference to the likelihood of Governor Landon's becoming the Republican nominee [for the Presidency] was not published in the Kansas City Journal-Post in November 1934 (TIME, May 18), but in the Journal-Post of Sept. 7, 1934, two months before election, while Landon was seeking reelection as Governor of Kansas. Written under the by-line of the undersigned, Washington correspondent of that journal, it appeared on p. 1, col. 1. . . . Excerpts "The belief prevails in GOP circles here that Landon will win in Kansas. . . . Landon measures...
Possible changes in the Harvard batting order center around the likelihood of Maguire's injured finger being well enough to permit him to take his regular position behind the bat. If he is unable to catch Al Colwell will, as on Wednesday, do the receiving with Bon Prouty again on first base and Mal McTernen in left field...
...solace was that exemption for married persons was being raised from $850 to $900, and the allowance for each child from $250 to $300. This was small comfort to the average Briton. With his Government launched on an enormous and costly campaign of national defense, he could see no likelihood of military expenses declining in the next year or two, every chance that taxes would soon mount to five shillings in the pound. Wailed Sir Francis L'Estrange Joseph, coal & iron tycoon: "The British Taxpayer is back in Bleak House...
...left to the naval experts. With Cabinet Ministers making fiery speeches for home consumption, with France publicly turning thumbs down on Italy's demands for naval equality, with the U. S. doing the same to Japan, and others offending each other in various ways, there was every likelihood that international hatred would be stirred up rather than allayed. As Ambassador Davis boarded the Aquitania last week, a newshawk popped a demand at him: Would...
...gold color scheme -black for profits, gold for dividends. American Chain got out of the red in 1934. This year, with probable profits of $1,300,000, it was well advanced along recovery's road. Last week it declared a $3.50 payment on preferred dividend arrears and the likelihood of further payments boosted the stock to $115 on the New York Stock Exchange. Holding 52,799 shares of Chain common, as well as 325 shares of its preferred, President Walter B. Lashar was well pleased with the dividend declaration. Most famed product of American Chain is the Weed nonskid...