Pi Beta Phi Name Restored as Illinois Corporation
Mrs. Van der Vries says Pi Beta Phi, dissolved by the Illinois attorney general for failure to file reports and pay taxes, is restored as a legal corporation after a California convention. A North Shore suit seeks accounting and aims to amend the national constitution to limit officer tenure.
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Beta |Phi
University of Kansas
Pasadena
Casif
Chicago
Pi Beta Phi
Illinois
Bernice YT. Vander Vriest
Kansas University
House of Representatives
Oflinois
California
North Shore
van der Nrieg
Rational Sorority
van der Vries
Kansas
North Shore Alumnae Club
North Shore Club
K. U
Awrs
van der, Vries
Pi Beta ‘Phi
Profits Surge for Top Corporations in Q2 1940
New York reports profits of the first 150 companies to file for the second quarter of 1940 rose 89 percent from the same period in 1939. Net income totaled 168.9 million dollars versus 121.7 million, led by American Telephone and Telegraph, which accounted for about a quarter of the total. Excluding AT&T, profits rose 52 percent.
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New York
Associated Press
American Telephones and Telegraph Company
Parade to profits led by heavy industry and railroads
Sufficient reports show heavy industry and the railroads driving profit gains with petroleum also rising. The food division lags, hurt by higher wheat and corn costs while grain price declines came too late to aid margins in the period just ended.
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Food Division
Europe
Convict Clings to Water Tower Refusal Ends
Atlanta reports 20 year old convict Wynne was removed from a 100 foot water tower after 19 hours of defiance. He raged against return to the Chatham county work camp while suffering sunburn from 94 degree heat. He must complete a four to five year burglary sentence after federal time ends.
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Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary
Georgia
J. W. Sanford
Andrew Jackson Wynne
Sanford
Chatham County
Savannah
Wynne
Chatham Camp
Tragedy At Homecoming As Ship Hits Mine
Mrs Tess Johnson waited on a quay to greet her husband and son in law aboard the naval trawler Campina. From shore she waved as the ship struck an enemy mine and both men were killed. The trawler’s loss was announced yesterday.
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London
Tess Johnson
Campina
Johnson
Romanian Confiscates Astra Romana Oil Company
The Romanian government confiscates Astra Romana Oil, a major British owned concern, appointing a deputy to run it. The action, linked to wartime fuel control, allows sending its production to Germany for Nazi armies. The move follows Astra Romana’s refusal to ship oil to the Reich. American oil firms say the measure does not affect U.S. interests.
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Bucharest
Rumania
Astra-Romana Oil Company
Gheron Netta
Royal Dutch Shell
Germany
Astra-Romana Company
Reich
United States
Astra-Romana
Altho
Foreign investment shapes Romanian fuel output in wartime
The article notes 40 smaller firms with French British and Romanian capital, Romania key for Germanys fuel supply for planes and war machines. British and French interests controlled about half of Romanian output, with other foreign firms including American controlling much of the rest.
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Wey
Pit
Rumania
Germany
American
Prospect Couples Attend Fractured Social Notices
Fragmentary OCR listing names and greetings shows Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gabriel of DeSots and Ed Ferguson with Mrs. Leslie Bru Ingle among several couples referenced in a scattered social page item.
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Arthur ‘Gabriel
DeSots
Ed’ Ferguson
Leslie
Bru’ Ingle
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