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Aged 50, lawyer and judge, no Southern demagog, respected by his colleagues, no less obscure nationally than was Senator Harding in 1920, no more an "innovation" than any other "favorite son" candidate, Walter Franklin George of Georgia will help Southern Democrats mark time. Whether or not they profit by the experiment, he will profit by the experience...
...along the Apennines and in Sicily. They produced two years ago 7,600 millions kilowatts of electricity. That was less than 200 kilowatts for each person in Italy (the U. S. last year supplied 627 kilowatts per person) and not enough. The Italian plants can expand to the great profit of the whole country. Such were points behind the incorporation in Delaware last week of the $33,000,000 Italian Superpower Corporation. With funds acquired through Bonbright & Co., Field, Glore & Co., and the Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co. (all of Manhattan) and under the presidency of Landon K. Thorne (president...
...those who, having their schedule of courses complete, wish to drop in occasionally on lectures the subjects of which happen to catch their interest. It is a matter of comparative case to find subjects in History, the Fine Arts or Literature which may be listened to with profit and pleasure by those having only a very general background of knowledge of the subject. In the sciences it is almost impossible to find such a subject. The comprehension of one lecture requires an exact knowledge of what has come before almost as necessarily as does the solution of a geometric problem...
With the "comeback" of the rubber industry, Prudential Securities has made money on the Goodyear and Seiberling rubber company stocks, which it held. But Prudential Securities was created to help Mr. Seiberling, not to profit. Therefore, slight Mr. Seiberling and bulky Mr. Davis met in the Cleveland lawyers' office last week and dissolved the company. This relieved Mr. Davis of his $5,000,000 guarantee and it repaid him his $500,000 cash. Mr. Seiberling and lawyers tried to persuade him to accept interest on his money. He refused. Said he: "Business is business, but friendship is also friendship...
...proceeds of "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" alone. Last week figures were published to prove that she earned more than $100,000 in a single year from Victor records. A lawsuit made it public. The U. S. complained because she had felt exempt from an excess profit tax of $6,592; had paid; had sued for its return. In vain Mme. Gluck reminded the court that she had made those records as long ago as 1917, argued against paying tax on the 10% that still comes to her on every record sold. The U. S. won the decision, took...