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...before. In the case of the Nickel Plate Railroad he took over when its first-mortgage bonds were selling below 30, its common stock at $7. Nickel Plate bonds which replaced the old issue are now around 90, its common stock had sold above $200 before it was split 5 for 1. With MoPac, said Young, he could "make clover" in the same...
...were constantly plagued by club and organization initiation stunts. During the late 20's the UT played one silent picture featuring an alarm clock which woke up the hero in several crucial scenes. During an afternoon showing just as the camera focused on the clock, the theatre was suddenly split by a tremendous shrieking of alarm clocks. "The next morning our ushers alone picked up 25 or so clocks which the students left behind them," Sumner recalls...
Especially impressive is Suzanne Chappell's interpretation of Nora. Nora is essentially a split personality, vain and frivolous on one hand, determined and strong-minded on the other. Miss Chappel effectively stresses the latter. Thomas Gaydos as Torvald and Michel Bouche as Krogstad are both effective and convincing...
After the speeches, there is always an hour or more of argument among Feeney's listeners. The people split up into three kinds of groups. One group uses his bigotry line to support its own ideas, and enlarges on his. Some think he should be locked up or refused freedom of speech in a public place. Others think he should go back merely to preaching the "non sulla ex-Catholica" dogma, as he did two years...
...Hall, a member of the N.C.A.A. television steering committee, suggested that all proceeds from football TV be split up between N.C.A.A. members so that "the less publicized team would not suffer from the drawing power of big time football telecasts...