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...less than one-fourth of that sum went to the insurance agency. In a suit brought by the city against Messrs. Curley & Santosuosso, Judge Fosdick found tha't the $85,000 had been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Consciousness of Guilt | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...grateful for Herbert Hoover. The difference between the generosity of thousands of donors and what cautious Administrator Hoover considered the real need of Wartime Belgians left the Belgian Relief Fund with a whopping surplus of $25,000,000 when the books were closed in 1919. This was split three ways: $9,000,000 to rebuild Belgium universities, $6,000,000 for a foundation for scientific research, $10,000,000 for exchange scholarships between Belgium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Happy Hoover | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...them. It now sells about 1,000 a year, has a factory in Kitchener, Ont., distributes all over the world. In the fiscal year ended last June it grossed $4,137,937, netted $151,405 or 83? on its 182,240 outstanding shares (after a 10-for-1 split in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: The Drive | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...decisive vote by which Anthony Eden was defeated after a dramatic clash with his former chief, Neville Chamberlain, Wild does not believe indicative of general sentiment in England since under Britain's electoral aws, the conservative elements are over-represented. Public opinion, he said, is quite closely split on the question of foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: England Will Call Mussolini's Bluff By Discussing Concessions, Says Wild | 2/24/1938 | See Source »

...more mysticism and fewer fights, and in them victory goes to the bigger army. A strange book, only a few hundred pages shorter than Gone With the Wind, it takes place in an instant in time and is probably the longest work ever written about the happenings of a split second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prophet of Doom | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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