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...glad that TIME "proposed no plan" for getting rid of our dog friends...
...part of their consent, General Electric and Westinghouse must get rid of their RCA shares which together equal 51% of the total. Within three months they will distribute half their RCA holdings to shareholders, disposing of the remainder within three years. The manufacturing companies will also withdraw their members from Radio's board. Previously the three companies licensed some of the pooled patents to outsiders (the minimum royalty rate was reduced from $100,000 to $10,000 after the suit began and the fee from 7½% to 5% of sales), but did not pay each other for their...
...general good of the nation, until nations are governed by true national policy rather than destructive nationalism, no progress is possible. As Sir Arthur Salter sees it, the world is full of governments who fail to govern, if they are to save themselves from destruction they must rid themselves of the dictation of particular private interests and once again assert their authority in the interests of the whole...
...nominated in his place Representative Overton, Long friend. With Louisiana in his pocket Senator Long announced that he was through with ''precinct brawls" and was now going to the country at large to campaign for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On the stump the Long theme song will be: "Rid America of Multimillionaires...
...first sign comes when Nicholas goes to bring old William Colombe to the death bed. The old man snores loudly, pretends to be asleep. After his wife's funeral, he persuades an aging adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children get rid of Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts...