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...certificates were not stricken International Match's only assets last week. The match & lighter monopoly in Turkey was definitely established and the trustees felt fairly certain that eventually Turkey will repay its loan from International plus interest?a matter of some $14,500,000. In Turkey, International's subsidiary match factory was reported to be in full blast last week with every expectation of continuing. Praise of Turkey's fairness was read into the record. But from all the other listed assets of International nothing tangible had arisen last week although investigators were reading thousands of telegrams, prowling into vaults...
...French people!" read the Cabinet's proclamation. ". . . All France, stricken with astonishment and plunged into consternation, mourns the illustrious Elder whose life was spent in her service and whose four sons died in her defense...
...coal seams in which men pick lying sideways all day, the half-blind ponies, the constant fear make up a pretty picture of hell. Above ground things are complicated by lockouts, strikes, broken-spirited drunkenness, and filth. Danny is luckier than most: he has a good though poverty-stricken home, and he has a love affair with a coal-country girl that Author Boden sketches with extraordinary tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about...
...Widespread depression has tended to lessen the contrast between rich and poor" is the comforting assertion of the hunger stricken author of the editorial. Doubtless he has had the insufferable experience of being deprived of his caviar for breakfast or perhaps this year can have as his extra car only a Buick instead of a Packard...
...good man a night she keeps her audience pleasantly amused, especially by her trick of beginning to talk in rapturous innocence and then coming out with the darndest things. The men who call forth this piquant display are less interesting, except for Mr. Connolly as the crusty and poverty-stricken lawyer whom she picks at random from the telephone book when the situation seems to call for a husband. Very entertainingly his fortunes look up for a time as the incredible little Cindarella sends a rich client his way. But the promised legal practice vanishes at a fairy's caprice...