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...discovered that of the $92,000,000, "U. S. Government and other marketable securities," which Allied Chemical & Dye put down in a lump sum among "current" assets on its balance sheet, the largest part consisted of the company's own stock. Forthwith the Exchange ordered Allied stock be stricken from trading on Aug. 23, if in the meantime Allied did not give its stockholders more & better information. A grave defeat was this for Orlando Franklin Weber, autocrat of Allied, who for a full year had urbanely held the Exchange's Listing Committee at arm's length...
...would have been spared the infamous pollution that Carbo has fouled its receptive mind with; so insidiously degrading and degenerate, that no wholesome minded man can have any conception of. La Scinana has polluted the National mind of Cuba, from her marble palaces to her most outlying and poverty stricken palm leaf hut. Still its Editor-in-Chief is allowed to live and pollute a Nation: under American protection For shame. While the flower of the young manhood of Cuba is willingly giving up its life in an apparently vain attempt to purify Cuba's national life! . . . . Machado, with...
...shrugged its shoulders, the plain implication being that Mr. Whitney would do well to mind his own business. Last week such reactions underwent a violent change. For Mr. Whitney, upon recommendation of the List Committee, had ordered that the common and preferred stock of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. be stricken from the trading list as of August 23. This meant that Mr. Whitney's fellow-stock-brokers could no longer make money in the sales of Allied's millions of shares of preferred and common...
Died. Famed Professor Ashley Horace Thorndike of Columbia University, 61; in Manhattan. Stricken with a heart attack as he was walking home from a club dinner. Professor Thorndike was found unconscious as he lay on a deserted Madison Avenue sidewalk. Best-known Thorndike textbooks: Facts about Shakespeare; Tragedy; English Comedy...
...team into the "World Serious," then riots himself into jail, refuses to come out and play. When he is finally released his confreres suspect that he has been dickering with city slickers to throw the game. Only in the last ten seconds of a wild inning does the panic-stricken team realize that Elmer is out-slicking the slickers...