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Drive. In various parts of the wheat country, notably in Minneapolis, foes of the Farm Board were last week preparing a drive against it, a move toward repealing the law which set it up, in the form of resolutions to be submitted at next week's meeting of the National Chamber of Commerce...
...desire to "manufacture something," these two men have been "the works." Mr. Grunow is the boss, the plant man. His noisy way of getting things done personifies a factory just as Mr. Grigsby's silent financial maneuvers are typical of a bank. Perhaps Mr. Grigsby's shrewdest move has been sticking with Mr. Grunow however mad his ideas have seemed. In 1927 Grigsby-Grunow stock was $25 a share. Now, twice split four for one, the original $25 would be $363. At last year's high it swelled to a fabulous...
...block of stock from Paramount and setting up a voting trusteeship. Soon afterward control was almost resold to Gaumont British Pictures Corp., Ltd., Fox controlled. Perhaps to avert some such catastrophe in the future, Paramount last week offered to exchange its shares for those of the Canadian corporation, a move that angered patriotic minority stockholders...
Commenting further, said President Bickel: "'Naturally if the Press abdicates, radio will move in, and in this case apparently Stimson and Page as chief liaison men were importuned by the radio people to give them talks and the newspaper industry apparently simply sat idly by and let them get away with it. ... That was certainly a humiliating position for American newspapers regardless of how excellently it demonstrated the initiative and ability of the radio people...
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