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...blank cartridge fired against a blank wall"President Hoover heard that that was how potent Publisher William Randolph Hearst described the Hoover speech to the Associated Press on law enforcement...
...attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming of a new philosophy of business as well as a ponderous rap at lightweight Wall Street gamblers...
Last week these various bad pennies turned up at a stockholders' meeting of Schulte Retail Stores Corp. The meeting was extremely raucous, with President David A. Schulte centre of the storm. Hecklers maintained that Schulte directors were selling their Schulte stock and that Wall Street knew that Schulte earnings were shrinking before Schulte stockholders had any suspicion that all was not well. To them Mr. Schulte replied that no common dividends might be paid for the rest of the year, that if cut pricing prevailed there might be no dividends for the next five years, that...
...inclined to follow corporation practice and announce their financial standing. De Saint Phalle & Co., revealed total assets of some $33,000,000. Last week it appeared that the same prosperous, socially prominent de Saint Phalles* would sponsor yet another innovation. Within two months, their office (at No. 11 Wall St.) will boast Manhattan's first electric quotation board. This device, which will separate many a "board boy" from his $15-a-week job, mechanically marks up prices as swiftly as the new tickers, giving five quotations for each stock: the last night's close, day's opening...
...Walsh of Montana, who represented a resolution for a sweeping investigation by a special committee of the United States Senate. Senator Walsh revealed that his attention was drawn to the subject by the writings of Professor William Z. Ripley, of Harvard University, in his book, "Main Street and Wall Street." Professor Ripley had paid considerable attention to public utilities, the merger of power companies, the pyramiding of holding companies and their financial practices, and the growth of interstate power; and raised the question whether the time had not come for Federal regulation of the electrical industry, so rapidly assuming...