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...London a century ago Charles Dickens got a job in a warehouse at Old Hungerford Stairs. There for twelve hours a day he tied up pot after pot of blacking, stuck labels on them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed...
...Pere Marquette, the I. C. C. refused as regarded the Erie. Seeing they were getting nowhere, the Van Sweringens decided to set up a master holding company that would bring together all their railroad interests till such time as the roads could be consolidated. Hence, Alleghany Corp. Into this pot they poured in 1929 all their rail stocks. They took in exchange 2,500,000 common shares and a 15-year option to buy 1,750,000 shares at $30. To pay off the loans which had been pyramided in making their acquisitions they sold 1,250,000 shares...
...competing with the young folk and of out-smarting them. In the course of events he shows what a chivalrous fellow he is by rescuing from a sharper the children of his old rival thereby uniting the firms and making peace and prosperity the lot of all. The pot-pourri contains a bit of romance, a bit of humor, and a lot of George Arliss. In Russia it will be correctly appraised as capitalistic propaganda, but the men who made it never thought of that, nor had they ever heard that there is in the cinema an art which...
Five new members were elected to the Dramatic Club as the result of acting and technical work done in connection of "The Watched Pot." Shingles were presented by Robert Breckenridge '34, president of the Club at a party given in Boston for the candidates who took part in the play...
...Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper de la Mare was placed on the Civil List for a pension of ?100 a year. Though he has often had to make the pot boil in various ways he never went back to an office. Hard worker, he has published more than 25 books. Broad-shouldered, ruddy-faced, unaffected, Walter de la Mare looks less like a poet than most poets, more like a sea-captain. Unclubbable, retiring, he lives in London's suburbs with...