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...point SEC did gain a victory. When Otis bought the Murray Ohio stock originally, the big stockholders it bought from agreed not to dump any of their remaining shares on the market for a certain length of time, a fact which was not stated in the offering prospectus. Bullish for the broker though such a statement would have been, the Court held that it should have been published, ordered that the like be published in future. Said the Otis lawyers last week: "The question as to what information should be contained in the prospectus has been the subject...
Over 1,216½ acres of what had been for years either swamp or unregenerate dump heap, squads of workers have been plowing and digging 24 hours a day since last June. Their job is to transfer about 7,000,000 cubic yards of ashes from the ash dunes of Flushing and Riker's Island to the swamps nearby, leveling off and grading a Fair ground. By day the dust clouds of their operations can be seen from the offices of the World's Fair Corporation designers on the 80th floor of the Empire State Building four miles...
...Powell as Butler Godfrey, the threadbare, unshaven Harvard man whom she picked up off the city dump as the culmination of a scavenger hunt, is the vent to all her immoderate enthusiasm. When the butler's room is about to be searched for missing pearls, she tears through the house like a four-year-old looking for the Christmas tree, deliriously screaming. "Godfrey, Godfrey, hide them if you've got them, the cope are coming!" Later she plunges about in furious joy, convinced that Godfrey loves her because he put her, dressed in evening clothes, into the cold shower...
Powell, smiling, superior, quietly humorous, was far outshone by the impetuous Lombard. Madcap society daughter Lombard suffers from a bitter jealousy of her older sister. Searching for a forgotten man to help beat her sister in a scavenger hunt, Lombard finds Powell living on the city dump. Grateful to him for having helped beat her sister, Lombard adopts Powell as her protege and gives him the position of butler...
...University Hall was modeled for Sculptor Daniel Chester French by onetime (1891-93) U. S. Representative Sherman Hoar of the Class of 1882. Last week the Boston press revealed that the vacant lot in Charlestown, Mass., in which John Harvard is supposedly buried is now being used as a dump...