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...suite, his Washington apartment or his Bethany Beach cottage) while pacing the floor. Faithful Secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson sets the harangue down on paper, helps the General whip it into literary shape later. It is then wired to United Feature's Managing Editor William Laas, who deletes the outright libel and graver profanity, sends the copy smoking on its way to the presses...
Savannah's potent Citizens & Southern National Bank, anxious to lure big business to Georgia, lent Union $1,000,000 outright. From other banks $1,500,000 was obtained. Union stockholders bought enough $30 shares of Union common stock to provide an additional $1,500,000 needed. Union's Savannah plant started operation in July 1936 and Union has now caught up fully with the paper revolution. Last year it made 7,000,000,000 of the U. S. total of 50,000,000,000 paper bags. Its $10,800,000 bag sales were...
Despite these nice profits, Esquire-Coronet (a new corporation which consolidated Esquire Inc. and Coronet Inc. in March) has not yet declared a dividend on its 500,000 shares of $1 par stock, of which President David Smart owned outright 181,450 shares, Secretary-Treasurer Alfred Smart 83,125, Vice-President John Smart 12,500, Co-Publisher Weintraub 33,010.* To make way for the first major public financing by a publishing house since the Securities Act of 1933, Dave Smart sold to the underwriters for $13.75 a share 35,000 shares, Alfred Smart 6,000 and others the rest...
...wheedle Italy into accepting this or even attendance at the conference, it was important that Italy should not be accused directly, but Russia, fighting mad at the loss of her ships during the summer, suddenly upset the apple cart. Bluntly she sent a note to Rome, accusing Italy outright of the torpedoing of the Soviet freighters Timiriazev and Blagoev during the past week and demanding cash reparations. Just as bluntly Italy denied the torpedoing, refused payment, intimated she would sit at no conference table with Russia...
...Falange Española, whose members wear blue shirts embroidered with a design of five red arrows. They are outright Fascists and want no king...