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...lower Broadway, in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, Federal Judge Bondy was holding court. A case was called and it was discovered that the jury panel had been exhausted. Morris Wilkenfeld and Louis Frankel, indicted for concealing assets from the trustee in charge of their bankrupt fur firm, were not to be thus saved from trial...
...headlines in local newspapers took some notice in succeeding years when Coolidge '95 was elected to minor offices: Selectman, Member of the State Legislature, etc. But they took no notice of his classmate Morrow when he was made a member of the New York law firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett...
Unsatisfied, he whirred away to Berlin, spoke as follows to correspondents: "A staunch and lasting understanding between the Soviet Union and Poland has a universal significance and repercussion. . . . On both sides a firm will was maintained to remove with the greatest energy everything disturbing our relations...
...correspondent, cabled to The New York Herald Tribune a series of significant despatches from Riga, Latvia. Carefully Correspondent Ruhl made clear that his intention was to provide a general picture of Soviet Russia uncluttered by statistics. In a word, he found business and industrial conditions reviving on an apparently firm basis; social and religious affairs functioning with but little friction in new channels; and Governmental dictatorship still absolute...
Announcement came out of England that the shipbuilding firm of William Denny & Brothers, of Dumbarton, Scotland, was to build an experimental ship whose propulsive steam would be retained in water-tube boilers capable of sustaining a pressure of 550 Ibs. to the square inch - more than twice the steam pressure of any steam installation used aboard ship today. This announcement, though it followed close upon the heels of a paper read by a famed engineer before the British Institution of Naval Engineering suggesting that steam turbines could be developed with pressures hitherto undreamed of, might have attracted little notice...