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...Rusby's contentions was a Manhattan importer and consulting chemist named Howard W. Ambruster. He specializes in arsenic and arsenical preparations for insect control. Three years ago he heard that U. S. ergot preparations were adulterated. He believed the situation was opportune for him to make money by importing clean Spanish ergot. He bought 70,000 Ib.?virtually a "corner" of the supply at that time?for $1.60 to $1.70 per Ib. The U. S. market price for ergot was then $1.15. He offered manufacturing druggists his ergot at $1.50. None would buy. Although later he sold small quantities...
...London flat for several days. He told her of obtaining from Cambridge shops $3,000 worth of haberdashery on credit which he pawned "for money to live like a gentleman." When she last saw him, said Madge Miller, "poor Mr. Potts was on his way to make a clean breast of everything at Cambridge," and she understood that he intended to commit suicide...
...against treaty action at this time, asked him if he would really call a special Senate session for that purpose. President Hoover assured him that he would. Whereupon Senator Watson solemnly announced: "A special session now seems necessary and has been decided on." Senator Watson "hoped" Congress would "clean up" its pending legislative program?tariff, rivers & harbors development, veterans' aid, motor bus regulation?by the end of June and adjourn...
Herr Kuerten is a retired family coachman, scrupulously clean and neat, polite spoken, with a grave, impressive face. His fellow servants thought nothing of his one eccentricity: a passion for studying geography. In arresting Coachman Kuerten last week, the police pointed out that this hobby dovetailed nicely with the "Düsseldorf Vampire's" habit of sending to local newspapers, small, carefully drawn maps illustrating each of his ghastly crimes...
...Wright as a pioneer in modernism. The Architectural League dined him formally in its Manhattan clubhouse. After dinner the company witnessed the opening of the first Wright exhibition in Manhattan. On the walls were quotations from Mr. Wright's writings. Excerpt: "A good word in architecture is 'clean.' Another is 'integral.' Still another is 'plastic'-one more 'quiet.'" On view were two of his latest projects: an 18-story glass-walled residential tower built on the cantilever principle; a mammoth skyscraper for the Chicago offices of National Life Insurance Co., whose...