Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should feel responsible to help out his neighbor in such a time as this, and usually with very little effort he can give some man that he happens to know a little work even though it be merely in his own house. "If each man, each community, especially the smaller towns, concentrates immediately on their own unemployment, there will be a great decrease in the migration of men out of work to the cities, a movement which takes place every year in the late fall...
...help the price of the stock or before sounding out the directorate. Lately, shareholders have become wary of official statements. Last week their remaining faith received another jolt. On Sept. 29, fresh from Europe, President Simon Guggenheim of American Smelting & Refining Co. told reporters: "In consideration of the smaller stockholders, corporations should maintain dividends as long as it is possible to do so without the necessity of borrowing. . . . For what better purpose could surpluses be used than in the maintenance of dividends thereby creating goodwill and confidence of stockholders. I have always advocated that policy and believe that the American...
...Exchange. He was suspended June 19, 1930 when his firm, Woody & Co., found itself insolvent because of the transactions of Partner Woody's Partner-brother-in-law Harold ("Night") Ryder. Creditors of Woody & Co. whose claims were more than $1,000 each received 45¢ on the dollar, those with smaller claims, 50?...
...voiced in Hollywood. The Road to Singapore can best be regarded as a testimonial to the merits of a less acquisitive policy. It is possibly William Powell's worst picture and far below the standard which Warner Bros, have announced their intention to maintain by adopting a smaller and more select production schedule (TIME, Sept. 20). Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than...
...contracts are awarded, was frankly designed to "protect the equities of the pioneer operator," a phrase which the independents see interpreted as "them as has, gets." Particularly enraged are they over the practice of granting to a big airmail operator an extension of his contract into territory where a smaller passenger line has been operating in hope of getting the mail some day. A case in point: Robertson Air Lines operates between St. Louis and New Orleans, but the mail was given to American Airways last June as an extension of its Chicago-St. Louis route...