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Receivership for P. R. T. "Subservient directors who did the Mitten bidding at a glance or a nod, to the end that the nefarious schemes hatched at before-dawn breakfasts, might, in their opinion, have the stamp of legality," were denounced last week by Judge Harry S. McDevitt who thereupon ordered the Mitten-managed Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. into receivership. Mitten Management, Inc. is headed by Dr. Arthur Alan Mitten, son of the late famed Thomas Eugene Mitten, transit expert...
...alone means long, laborious work for Dr. Kimball in the Weather Bureau offices atop the Whitehall Building at the lower tip of Manhattan Island. It means working all night, making a weather map from radioed reports received from ships at sea, that a flyer hoping to take off at dawn may have last-minute information. For this service, in addition to his regular duties to marine navigation, Dr. Kimball is compensated by a salary of about $4,000 per year, plus vicarious joy in the achieve ments of his "boys and girls...
...grey dawn. Upstairs in a farmhouse near Milan, Mo. lay a burly middle-aged man with a scarred lip, asleep. Near his pillow lay a loaded pistol. But he did not wake up when four stealthy-figures entered the bedroom and "covered" him with a submachine gun, did not have time to snatch his weapon before they had seized and beaten him into submission...
...with a bronze statue of his father, Impresario Oscar Hammerstein, in the lobby. The father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses, and I made the mistake of trying...
...month has justified his letter of Feb. 10 in which, after a lyric description of spring, he said: "Just so the stockmarket, paralyzed by fear for business and liquidation by wearly holders of stocks, having passed through the period of depression (Winter), gives signs to the initiated of the dawn of a new era (Spring), with its many opportunities to the alert and thoughtful to participate in the coming Bull Market- the creator of new Millionaires, as in the past; so by prompt and wise action, NOW, in the springtime of this Market, will satisfactory results be obtained...