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...tight pitching of Booth must go a large share of the credit for the victory. He turned the school boys back with five hits and two walks after he had struck out eleven of their number. He kept himself out of trouble until the last inning, when a miscue of Ellison's opened the way for the two Cushing runs. In the meanwhile, Ullman and Howard had been celebrating their first game by crashing frequent and timely bingles, and the 1927 nine had a six run lead when the little ninth inning trouble robbed Booth of the shut...
Other things which the imaginary couple say: "He owns half of East Prussia, a large part of Sweden, the waterfront at Bremen, Hamburg and Copenhagen and the lion's share of stock in the fattest enterprises throughout the world...
When Frank was young, he was employed by the Chicago Tribune as a reporter. Street Railways under Charles T. Yerkes were a public scandal, but the public could get no facts. Frank bought a share of stock in the railways, thus enabling him to attend private stockholders' meetings. And what Frank heard at these meetings he reported...
...According to this doctrine of happiness," he went on last night, "every man has the right to be happy, and so if he is unhappy he is entitled to complain of a wrong and the guilty individual who has taken his share. It is radically false, and did not exist in the older philosophies. The doctrine began in England two and a half centuries ago during the reign of Charles the Second, a period when other unwholesome things crept into the world. The word 'happiness' does not occur a single time in the authorized version of the Bible. 'Happy' does...
...capitalization today consists of $300,000,000 common stock, which recently earned $15.74 and paid in dividends $7.00 per share; its funded debt amounts to $768,420,686. There is no preferred stock. The high credit of the road is illustrated by the fact that it is one of the few American railroads which have recently been able to finance themselves through the sale of new common stock instead of new bonds...