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...Gravely Mr. Whitney replied that a ¼point advantage would be gained by selling on the London Exchange. Shafer agreed, pointed out that since Pumper Whitney was soon going abroad he could easily act as the Guild's agent. Mr. Whitney was sorry; the Senate "bear hunt" had upset his plans to travel; but enclosed was a $5 bill for the stock-a generous price. Grand Diapason Shafer remitted the shares. Recently Shafer received from Guaranty Trust Co. (Manhattan transfer agent of Burma Corp.) its check No. 905C2778 for 4?, representing "an interim dividend of 1 anna per share...
...married men, Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children as Catholics she was downright upset. Her vulgar, cheap-scheming mother encouraged her to leave Paul, have a good time with flashy friends. Paul took Björg as she came and went, worked away at his business, his religion, his children, was quiet and peaceable, full of compassion in all his dealings...
...deficit in the same period of 1931. Japan's Copper. Next to coal, copper is Japan's most important mineral. Sales at home practically halted by the completion of electrical developments, Japan in the past three years has turned to exporting copper again. Last week Japanese copper upset the European market, knocked the price of copper...
...Bernarr Macfadden's True Story, Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. last year brought out My Story, withdrew it after a bitter squabble in which Macfadden threatened to undersell My Story with a new one to be called Your Story. Later Publisher Delacorte upset a Macfadden scheme to publish Hullabaloo in imitation of Delacorte's Ballyhoo. Few months ago Delacorte pilfered Macfadden's idea for a burlesque tabloid newspaper, Laugh Parade, beat him to the newsstand with a Nutty News. When Macfadden announced last fortnight a forthcoming magazine entitled Babies: Just Babies, with Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt as editrix...
...declare its independence next day. Instead President de Valera consented to meet Prime Minister MacDonald again face to face, traveling for this purpose to London last week, as he did last month before Scot MacDonald left for Lausanne (TIME, June 20). Again they flatly disagreed, an event which so upset old George Lansbury, leader of the Labor Opposition in the House of Commons, that he cried: "I call upon the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury to intervene! . . . We have started a fight with Ireland the end of which...