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Spring Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore...
...studies continue to gush forth their maudlin mush oblivious of the fate of the exhibitors or the displeasure of the audiences. A system of single picture booking would not eliminate all inferior productions, but it most certainly, would raise the general level and would allow the theatre owners to select pictures on the basis of their merits and popular appeal. Such a system can be instituted only through federal legislation which would make block booking illegal and would place the movies on the same competitive basis as that of other industries...
...research authorities and socialite backers, Mrs. Belmont outlined over a nationwide radio hookup the three main objectives in the latest U. S. campaign for more moral cinemas: 1) Elimination of "objectionable" films, 2) more pictures made specially for children, 3) right of a community to select films. Said the Council's new president: "We are starting a movement here which will spread across the country from coast to coast. There are literally thousands of little groups interested in better movies, and we are bringing them into this one movement. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, our honorary vice president, is drawing...
When the proposal of publishing the paper was placed before the club members last night, an overwhelming majority of 13 to 3 approved it. A select few, who later were found to be interested in the Harvard Critic, opposed the new plans, but their objections were quickly checked by the remaining enthusiastic supporters of the future newspaper...
...subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said, his pencil stopping at the name Traylor. Mr. Traylor sold so many certificates that the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank wanted to make him deputy governor...