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Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...
...used jointly by the securities company's subsudiary abd by Shermar Corp., † the Wiggin family holding company, to sell holdings of Chase stock. It sold over 50,000 shares of the Wiggin family's stock at boom prices and besides had a cash profit of $1,452,000 from operations. No crime did the investigators attempt to fasten on Mr. Wiggin but the committee's efforts seemed bent on accusing him of a deadly sin: greed...
...returned to rebuild and landscape his home town and incidentally to buy Atlas. But his family sold Atlas to some Boston bankers in 1920; rugs grew more popular than carpets and the tack trade languished. No dividends have been paid in 13 years and as many deficits as profits have been reported. It still makes 7,000,000 lb. of tacks a year, also brads and rivets, but its line of 24,000 items now includes metal buttons, shoe eyelets, bottle caps. The faith of Kermit Roosevelt et al in tacks and bottle caps was partly justified by Atlas...
...gallon. Under this plan $700,000,000 in revenue would be collected annually-96% more than the total Federal individual income tax for 1933. 3) Strict avoidance of the licensing system because a) it does not eliminate the profit motive; b) such systems invariably get mixed up with politics; c) licensed traders are not interested in curbing overindulgence and drunkenness; d) once the system is in force and capital is invested in licensed property there is no retreat. When the W. C. T. U. read the Rockefeller plan, it snorted. In a sarcastic bulletin from Evanston headquarters it recalled that...
...them out of the bag one after the other, and now they are get ting a bit scared about the more extreme instruments. . . . There is a suspicion that the NRA is putting up costs and not increasing purchasing power. ... In all countries except Russia the mainspring of employment is profit. Keep profits in sight and you go on. . . . Production in the United States has now fallen off, especially in the construction field. Some industries are showing no signs of improvement and there is a definite failure in the creation of public employment...