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...worst eye-sores about Cambridge is the plot of land controlled by the college on the corner of De Wolfe and Mill Streets. Overgrown with weeds, surrounded by a broken-down fence, it appears to serve absolutely no useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well...
...story weaves its way along the threadbare theme of broken-down Southern aristocracy living on the hard crusts of the past. The Connellys, mother (Henrietta Crosman), son Will (Robert Young ) and Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl...
Father Coughlin hurled charge after charge of corruption, deceit and deliberate falsifying of books at the officials of the defunct banks. Furthermore, he fumed, it was doubtful if three of them would escape Federal indictment-Banker-Publisher Stair, former Chairman Wilson W. Mills of First National ("a broken-down lawyer who swapped his profession for the fleshpots of Egypt") and Peter J. Monaghan, a director of Detroit Bankers and its attorney. Special U. S. Assistant Attorney General Pratt, who is also probing the Detroit situation, slyly observed: "Father Coughlin must know more about it than...
...barber recognized him and spoiled it all. He made and lost fortunes at the gaming table, hobnobbed with royalty, became kingpin of a polyglot community in Siberia, escaped to the U. S. ("the Contry of the Gold Devil"), where he pyramided another flimsy fortune, gradually subsided into a broken-down old panhandler in the Orient. When Authoress Benson last heard of him he was in Macao, "where, for the moment, he stands balanced, as though on a steppingstone, about to step into a new life of grand sansation...
...Diesel engines, power shovels and other heavy machinery as sidelines. But their great main plants are still locomotive plants and must have locomotive business to survive. The three companies can always count on some repair and parts business. But even this has been deferred, for with traffic falling off, broken-down Iron Horses can be turned out into the yards indefinitely. At present it is estimated that 10,000 of them are in need of re-shoeing...