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...upset the balance, and the result has been an onerous situation where Cambridge can neither get rid of him, nor bring him into line. The CCA itself has split over the question, one faction insisting on Atkinson's immediate reelection, the other on his dismissal. Actually, the anti-Atkinson group is merely trying to threaten the city manager as a means of forcing him to submit to the Council's authority. But because the Council cannot agree on a candidate to replace Atkinson, the threat is a watery one indeed. So Atkinson continues on his way with little fear...
Electric Coonskin. Then, overnight, he became the man in the coonskin cap. Early in 1947, Kefauver shrewdly saw that a factional split in Boss E. H. Crump's Tennessee machine might give a non-machine Democrat a chance to be Senator. He broke precedent by declaring a full ten months before the primary. He and Nancy set up campaign organizations in each of the state's 95 counties, probably shook more hands than anyone in Tennessee political history, and nettled Mistah Crump into a roar that made Kefauver famous. "Kefauver," wrote Crump in full-page newspaper advertisements through...
...tortuous route, beset by every conceivable swamp, pitfall and booby trap known to politics. Kefauver's immediate strategy is to prove his popular strength. He will head, first, into the important primaries in Wisconsin and Nebraska, April 1. Wisconsin looks hopeful because the Truman forces are split there. Nebraska puts him squarely against Oklahoma's Senator Robert Kerr. as yet an untried, but supposedly potent, Midwest contender. If Kefauver vanquishes Kerr and picks up odds & ends of strength along the way, his next obstacle will be Georgia's Richard Russell (in the two Florida votes...
...joined with more than 70 other investment houses to make the bid. Price: $29,131,960. The high price surprised Wall Street, since Schering stock has a book value of about $26 a share, against the syndicate's bid of about $66. This week the syndicate is splitting the 440,000 shares four to one, will put them in the market at $17.50 each, or al most three times the actual book value of the split shares...
...stock paid $2 a share in 1949, but in 1950, when the company earned $3.77, the new managers paid out $3, a 50% rise. Last year, when it earned $5.96, they paid out $4 a share. The stock went soaring, and it was split four shares for one. In January, Broadwater used $2,400,000 of the surplus to pay out a special $2.50 dividend on the new stock, equivalent to $10 a share on the old. And recently he boosted the 25? quarterly rate on the new stock to 35?, equivalent to a pre-split rate...