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...sham and melodrama should be disregarded by the Court in the examination of the facts that caused the spectacular rise in Insull common stock to $55 a share. That Insull carried on expansion of his companies at the beginning of the depression in proportion to that of many other large industries--automobile, oil, transportation, etc.--can not be denied. But Mr. Insull's expansion was of an entirely different type. Whereas the Rockefeller, Ford, and Sloan interests were expanding by a normal increase in the demand for their products, Insull Utilities rose in value chiefly by an elaborate system...
Albert Hamilton, student at the University of California, contended that, as a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, his conscience would not permit him to take part in drills and sham battles staged by the student corps...
...department the leading candidate is Sham Kelly Jr. '36 a veteran of last year and captain of the Freshman team two years...
...host and guest at this point that Turkish and Persian journalists reported ecstatically afterward: "They have become real friends, personal friends and brothers!" At Smyrna, to his grave delight, the King of Kings received personal command of some Turkish troops who pitched under his orders into an exciting sham battle with airplanes raining "boom bombs...
...stay indoors "in case of gas attack." The attack came, though it was only tear gas and only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut off all electric current to remind Warsawites that their central power station was supposed to have been destroyed...