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Charles Stewart Mott leads all others by a margin so great as to stir the imagination. At the current market his 649,518 shares would be worth over $23,000,000, a vast sum for one man to have in one enterprise. Next in line come George Fisher Baker Jr. with over $6,000,000 worth of stock and Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. with $5,700,000. In most companies any man who owned over half a million shares of voting stock could be pointed out as a controlling factor, but not so in General Motors. The company...
Purpose of the Freedom of the Press Committee, so far as was revealed, is to intensify public sentiment in favor of press-freedom. Speakers at the meeting viewed with alarm the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court voted the Minnesota "gag law" unconstitutional by such a small margin as 5 to 4 (TIME, June 8 et ante). But the first specific function of the Committee will be a celebration of that vote, on Oct. 20 at Thomas Jefferson's ''Monticello" near Charlottesville, Va. One room of "Monticello," maintained by the Jefferson Foundation, is to be designated...
...Emergency Committee on Railroad Investments of Life Insurance Companies and Mutual Savings Banks, he said he spoke for 50,000,000 policy holders and 13,000,000 depositors whose institutions held about one third of the roads' $10,783,000,000 outstanding bonds. Pointing to the reduced margin of safety between earnings and fixed charges, Mr. Duffield declared: "If the credit of the roads cannot be conserved, we cannot continue to furnish them with new funds necessary for their maintenance and development. . . . An emergency exists. . . . Present earnings are wholly inadequate to support railroad credit...
...sent his brassie shot into the crowd on the tenth fairway and took a five. At the 14th, playing into a stiff wind, he was on in three and down in three putts for a six. He played the next two holes in par and still had a comfortable margin-one over par to tie-when he teed up his ball at the 17th...
...gain, but not enough to recover more than fractionally the shrinkage of 1930. Total exports in March 1931 were $237,000,000 against $369,000,000 in March 1930; imports, $209,000,000 against $300,000,000. Since the U. S. exports about 10% of its goods, and the margin of profit in many industries is 10%, the effect on many a balance sheet is obvious...