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Special services for mutes are given in Chicago by Methodist Rev. Philip J. Hasenstab and Rev. Henry S. Rutherford, who alternate in carrying their work throughout the Midwest. In San Francisco Lutheran Pastor Charles Jaetner conducts services twice a month. Jews, Catholics and Protestants in Atlanta may attend special deaf-mute services every Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. In Dallas deaf-mutes meet weekly in the First Baptist Church. Mrs. Clara E. Hemphill is the leading sign language teacher of that city. Her great concern is to persuade Episcopalians to provide mute services because she believes...
...days of Calvin Coolidge North American Co., holding company for over $600,000,000 worth of Midwest Utility properties, declared no cash dividends on common stock, paid in stock only. During Depression it continued its strong cash position, reducing construction expenditures from $42,000,000 in 1931 to less than $16,000,000 in 1933. Last week for the first time in ten years it declared a cash dividend of 12½? on common stock, in addition to a stock dividend of 1% and the regular 75? on preferred...
When the natural gas boom of 1930-31 subsided, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. had become allied with the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel utilities, had (through an affiliate) connected its 29,000-mi. Midwest system with the Texas Panhandle. That year (1931) it earned $22,331,000. The next year it formed a joint company with the Rockefellers to develop gas fields in north central Pennsylvania and western New York. But Columbia Gas had bank loans of $43,500,000, mostly the result of its expansion. The demand for natural gas had already fallen off when Columbia's President Philip Green...
...What Midwest newspaper syndicate was peddling death & destruction...
Bred on small gymnasium courts, Eastern teams play a cunning, fast game, usually with spontaneous maneuvers. The larger Western courts develop long passers, elaborate strategies. Midwest and Pacific Coast play a hard-hitting game. Referees there are free-&-easy in interpreting the rule against blocking, thus favoring the offense. In New England the blocking rule is severely enforced. To a lesser degree the same is true in East, South and Northwest. Even without hope of recognized national supremacy, each league last week had a fair idea of what teams would be in the top flight for the final play-offs...