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There were screams from smaller stockholders, resulting in sudden attention from the Senate Banking & Currency Committee, but when the din died Radio (underwriters of the debentures) had more than one-half the stock and over three-quarters of the debentures, an investment eventually carried on Radio's books at $15,000,000. In 1932 NBC President Merlin Hall Aylesworth became RKO president...
...assorted little company so artfully they became an efficient propaganda and espionage apparatus. Meanwhile he waddled around Longwood, recalling his great days, making the whole company work on his memoirs. Talking as much as Samuel Johnson, the imperial chatterbox spun out his pungent, cynical comments, salting his malice with sudden acts of kindness, keeping his followers in line like a wealthy old uncle with hints of the wealth he would leave them. He bluffed them, too, for he had very little to leave. But his mimic war for moral mastery of the island became deadly serious. Being made ridiculous...
Almost every year an outbreak of acute gatro-intestinal disturbance occurs among the student body. The usual symptoms are sudden in onset, with abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea and prostration. The illness usually lasts two or three days. This type of outbreak occurs in every university, college and preparatory school in the land. They are no more frequent in colleges than in institutions, hotels, and restaurants that serve food to large numbers of people. They are more striking, however, because in the college, all cases come to the attention of the authorities, whereas restaurant and hotel guests scatter and seldom report...
...bulletins issue out of Stillman Infirmary reporting the fall of forty-five odd students in the past two days, all struck down by a mysterious digestive disorder, the University hygiene officials are at a loss to explain the sudden advent of plague in the college. For although the victims have recovered with almost as much speed as they were taken ill, the infection has defied the best medical detectives, and despite the care with which the University surrounds the preparation of food, the causes of the plague remain unfathomed...
...attempt for point after, from where we were it looked like a good one. It doesn't go up and it doesn't go up on the scoreboard. My last jubilant croak dies in the aesophagus. Sudden and blinding revelation. It was no goal...