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Life insurance companies today know how principals of policies are swept away in the sentimental exhibitionism of relatives intent upon glorious burial of mortal clay...
Indeed TIME does not intend to be deliberately offensive to Southern people. TIME'S only intent is to report significant news. By word and deed directed toward the Negro, Southern people help make that news. Southern Congressmen made news when they barred Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest's Negro friends from the House of Representatives' Restaurant (TIME, April 2). Perhaps Southern Congressmen will make more news when Negro Congressman Arthur Mitchell takes his House seat. TIME'S use of the word "gentleman" was well-advised. As such, under the House's parliamentary rule, Negro Mitchell...
...deliberation: three letters exchanged between Insull officials and Arthur Young & Co., public accountants, as to whether stock dividends received by Insull's Corporation Securities Co. should be listed at their market value as income of Corporation Securities. The Government contended this form of bookkeeping was evidence of fraudulent intent. The jury decided...
...charge to the jury, Federal Judge Wilkerson declared: "Lack of good business judgment cannot be considered a basis for conviction. Simply because a defendant embarked upon a losing business venture is no grounds for supposition of guilt. . . . Erroneous judgment may be as consistent with good intent as with...
...accused young women ruin themselves by pressing an unsuccessful libel suit. Alone in a deserted classroom, Karen Wright (Katherine Emery) and Martha Dobie (Anne Revere) are faced with a hopeless future. In her morbidity, Martha reveals that although Karen is innocent, she, Martha, has not been entirely guiltless in intent. She goes to her room. There is a gunshot. In one of the soundest bits of acting seen this season, Actress Emery lets a full half-minute pass before she reacts to the report...