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In suspending shares of the Hatry group from listing on 'Change the august Stock Exchange Committee loosed a thunderbolt not previously hurled at any British corporation, a dreadful weapon supposed to be reserved for interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000...
Chief political figure on the anti-export side stood former Governor Ralph Owen Brewster (1925-29). No good friends are ex-Governors Brewster and Baxter. More than once has Baxter accused Brewster of being a Ku Kluxer. More than once has Brewster implied that Baxter is dull if not dreadful...
The Tunney chapter says: ". . . Boxing up to this time [circa World War] had a most dreadful inheritance in the way of reputation. ... As a rule, they [prize-fighters, managers et al.] were sinister people with few scruples, vulgar and brutal to a marked degree . . . branded as outcasts . . . until the government...
The only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave...
Half Marriage (RKO). After several reels of almost continuous kissing, Olive Borden is faced with a moment when the bad fellow who has been trying to get her away from her husband chases her up to the roof, makes a pass at her, falls over the edge, is killed. She...