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...Shaw Co- ($2). Author Updegraff has dedicated this industrial romance to "the John Rowntrees of today who are wiping out the memory of the H. B. Lockharts of yesterday." In 1900, aged 25, John Rowntree suddenly inherits his father's nationally advertised stove and range company. Forthwith baldheaded, leather-skinned H. B. ("H. B.") Lockhart, onetime Rowntree employe and now proprietor of a rival stove works, makes an indecent proposal: "Let's combine, juggle the stock, and sell out! Easy money!" Young Rowntree refrains from smashing Mr. Lockhart's face, stalks out of the room. But Lockhart...
...reversed the decision of the two lower courts, vindicated Proprietor Dysart, vexed the schoolteachers. Its decision said that the language of the letters could not be considered improper for the mails unless it was "calculated to corrupt the minds and morals of those into whose hands it might fall." Forthwith, the Supreme Court adjourned for the Christmas recess-to meet again...
...Cuemo of the Porto Rican Line, was that day sailing for Porto Rico, intending to desert her in a crisis. I at once despatched a detective, who arrested Steward Margon just as the gangplank was being drawn up. After I had lectured him, he married Miss Rosa forthwith. I was congratulating them, when suddenly Margon broke loose from his bride and fled, looking back at one Jose Dueno, who had just entered court. The blackamoor steward, recaptured, was locked up in jail on a charge of bigamy. He had allegedly married, two weeks previously, Mr. Dueno's sister...
...sprang to defeat President Coolidge's good friend, Louis B. Hanna, in the Republican primaries last summer. Then last week he informed the President that he frowned upon the appointment of any of Mr. Hanna's friends to Federal jobs either in Washington or North Dakota. Forthwith, the President patched up a peace...
...honored with the Grand Cross of the Victorian Order. The Fritz and Franklin medals in the U. S. were also mine; all the important crosses and decorations of Italy descended upon me; indeed in 1909 the King of Italy himself had nominated me as an Italian Senator, which I forthwith, of course, became...