Word: sidelight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Continental Illinois did better than it had agreed in buying back the RFC preferred: in 1936, $5,000,000; in 1937, $10,000,000; in 1938, $10,000,000 more. Continental Illinois common shares, which sold at $60 in 1934, are now selling around $87. An interesting sidelight: Preferred Representative Cummings, who in 1937 owned only 104 shares of his own common, reported a year later that he held 3,019 shares and today reports holdings of 5,019 shares, owns more Continental common than any other director...
...Wheeler produced a letter written to O. P. & M. J. Van Sweringen in March 1930, by Joseph R. Swan, then president of Guaranty Co. Mr. Swan's letter, introduced to prove that C. & O. really acquired no option but immediate control of C. & E. I., was an interesting sidelight on the dummy deal. Wrote he: "I very much need some profit for the Guaranty Co. in this quarter, and on that account wondered whether or not it would be possible for you to arrange that we should receive the commission in connection with the purchase...
...these communist groups are now vaguely remembered as something between a co-operative and a free-love colony. Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
TIME'S thanks to Engineer Guest for an interesting and little-known sidelight on U. S. consumer co-operation...
...probably too illiterate to discover that they have been defeated. Chiang, with a monopoly on the war bulletins, naturally gives himself the best of the fighting. I do not assert that TIME is hoodwinked by his propaganda, but I trust that the editors will accept in good faith this sidelight upon the Far Eastern situation...