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Into the extremely select circle of U. S. corporations whose annual sales total one billion dollars, Swift & Co. will this year probably move, having done nearly a billion dollars a year for many a year. But big, energetic Louis F. Swift,* who works all day at a stand-up desk, gets as profits for his company only a small slice (less than 2%) of his gross...
Last week a select portion of the U. S. public was permitted to buy stock in Shenandoah Corp., a newborn investment trust which came into being with a silver spoon of $102,000,000 resources in its mouth. Eager, the public snapped up one million shares of common, one million shares of preferred, paying up to 42 for common offered at 17½ and up to 60 for preferred offered at 50. By midafternoon of the first day's sale there was no Shenandoah stock available...
...diocesans, spoke out in defense of the De Priest affair: "There is no more justification for the exclusion of a black man and his wife from such a function than there is to exclude a red, yellow, brown or white one. The President and his wife do not select any of them; the constituency does. It is about time for everybody to quit seeing black only...
...Church shall have the right to select its priests, who will then be duly registered with the Ministry of the Interior (TIME...
...satisfied, the President said: "After many years of contention we have at last made a constructive start at agricultural relief. . . ." Soon he was again given cause for satisfaction. Congress appropriated the $150,000,000 required to start the machinery set up in the new law (see p. 12), to select "farm-minded" members of the New Federal Farm Board. There were some 200 candidates for these positions...