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Paradoxically the case of Crown v. Kylsant is not, from a purely legal standpoint, either complex or remarkable. In lucid British fashion King's Councillor D. N. Pritt put the case last week at Guildhall thus...
From a purely fiscal standpoint, the case promised to be most complex. Vanloads of ledgers and papers will be produced by both sides. For example, every phase of the $10,000,000 Royal Mail 5% debenture bond issue of 1928 will be minutely examined, the Crown trying to prove that this was a barefaced swindle by the Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. He sold these shares, the Crown charges, by telling the public that Royal Mail was earning enough in 1928 to cover interest on the debentures five times, whereas for the past seven years the Royal...
...culled extra money by writing of the romance of Mr. Woolworth's rise. Yet there was little romance to it. He was a frugal, practical merchant with a good idea to work on. Success brought him the ailment common to many another U. S. tycoon-a Napoleonic complex. In 1913 this found expression. That year he built for himself a great monument, the Woolworth building, internationally hailed as a "Cathedral of Commerce." On the 24th floor he placed the company's offices. His private office represented a $35,000 departure from frugality. It was a careful duplicate...
...crime in this country, Professor Glueck emphasized the experimental nature of the new curriculum. "I should like to stress," he said, "that no rash promises to 'discover the cause of crime' are being made. The Institute of Criminal Laws known that the crime problem is one of the most complex of all social problems and that it is absurd to expect 'immediate results' from any effort in this field. The public have too long been led to false expectations, and too many patent medicines have been peddled in this field by men who have given the subject very little thought...
...method was to take materials which he reasoned might contain eka-iodine. Since eka-iodine would be a halide like fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine, only heavier, he used seawater, fluorite and other halogen compounds. He burned each of them and sent their complex light through a polariscope and then through a magnetic field. A magnet twists polarized light to a calculable extent. The fineness of this magneto-optic rotation is such that it can detect one part of a substance in 100 billion parts. The greatest amount of eka-iodine Dr. Allison could find in any of his substances...