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...reasonable cost. To attain this end it is the policy of the company to pay only reasonable regular dividends. . . . Extra or special dividends are entirely inconsistent . . . and unsound." The reiteration of this statement was perhaps the booming of a new philosophy of business as well as a ponderous rap at lightweight Wall Street gamblers...
...Chicago, a Mrs. Victoria Tultric awaited her husband's homecoming, impatiently. A loud and familiar-sounding rap rattled the front door. Mrs. Tultric, impatient, fired a bullet through the door. The man she shot was not errant Mr. Tultric, but Truant Officer Thomas McCarthy calling on duty...
...does happen on occasion that they will run a passenger ragged around the deck. One excitable prima donna one day heard a rap on her door, asked "Who is there?" Came a voice: "It is I." Thoughtlessly she opened the door. In poured the reporters and cameramen from whom she was hiding...
...Here is an issue," cried California's white-crested Senator Hiram W. Johnson to some Los Angeles lunchers last week, "on which no man, I do not care a rap who he is, should be silent. It will be the issue in the next Senate, when the fight for Boulder Dam will be up again. No man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain to the people of the United States...
...past, graduates have exposed themselves to everyone, from the merchant who wants college men in permanently clerical positions to the fly-by-night promoter. Although at Harvard such advances have never becomes the nuisance they seems to be at Yale, where, according to Mr. Crawford, the rap at the door disturbs April as well as September evenings, the principle of protection seems to be ripe for application in almost every college...