Word: shared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...founding of credit unions (cooperative savings and loan groups) in America. There are over 6,000 of them today, furnishing credit at the minimum rates to 1,250,000 workers who formerly were dependent on high-rate money lenders, frequently illegal loan sharks, when they needed a loan. I share the benefits of one myself; had it not been for Filene I should not have had it. This is not his only concrete contribution to liberalism; it is simply the one with which I happen to be familiar...
...Devanter leaned over and whispered to Chief Justice Hughes. In 20 minutes a few decisions of little public interest had been read, Court orders issued providing for hearing next autumn of cases challenging PWA's loans to establish municipal power plants, denying an immediate review of Electric Bond & Share Co.'s test of the Utility Holding Company Act, etc. For another 25 minutes the Justices sat while nearly 100 applicants for permission to practice before the Court were introduced, and sworn in in batches. Then the Court rose. Mr. Van Devanter stopped to shake the proud hand...
...future of Cinema Arts will depend heavily on how its backers fare with an issue of 170,000 shares of stock at $2 a share, subject to SEC approval, to be offered to the public by William J. Mericka & Co. this week. Publisher Griffith-Grey -who enlarged his name in 1915 to avoid being confused with his famed brother, for whom he used to distribute pictures like Broken Blossoms, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation-determined 18 months ago to get out Cinema Arts. Last autumn he startled the magazine world with the biggest dummy ever seen...
...shares in the Nieman estate were acquired by the Journal Co. and Miss McBeath at $3,500 a share, Miss McBeath buying in her part of the trustfund. Next, one-fourth of the Journal's total stock, split 100 for 1 to convenient $35 units, was offered for sale to Journal employes of five years standing. Since 531 Journalists qualified, each employe received an initial stock quota of from $500 to $5,000, based on his pay & rank...
...double-feature billing and Bank Nights. "Why do we have double features? Because the big boys wanted their theatres to use up the entire product of the studios so we'd have to take everything second-hand," explains Al Steffes bitterly. He admits that the independents had a share in building up Bank Night but asserts: "We were getting such rotten pictures that we had to do something to get people into the houses...