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Of all boom-inflated U. S. utility holding companies, the most preposterous was not Howard Hopson's Associated Gas & Electric (TIME, March 4) but a smaller pyramid in which Hoppy once had a large voting interest. This was the $400,000,000 fantasy called Utilities Power & Light Corp., put...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Indianapolis Sold to the Public | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

Last February 41-year-old Elisha Waterman, grandnephew of the founder, resigned his job as executive vice president of L. E. Waterman Co., famed makers of pens. Not only did he resign, but last week he sued to dissolve the company. Not only did he sue, but in effect he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Waterman on a Rampage | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

The Black Lion, M. Tallerie and a certain Major Bréhier were accused by the West African Mouride Tribe of fraud. M. Tallerie and a Mouride sheik named Bamba had signed a contract under which the former was to build a mosque in Touba, Negro religious centre near the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lion of Senegal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Britisher Byron Charles Tate, a member of the Griswold-Harkness Expedition (1934-35) to the East Indies, sued Explorer Lawrence Tarleton Knutsford Griswold for $100,000 for defamation of character because of an incident in Griswold's book, Tombs, Travel and Trouble. Grounds: Tate never attempted to seduce the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Last week Joan, backed by her father, an engineer, sued for an injunction to restrain the Board of Education from flunking her. Her complaint: the free-for-all shower room 1) is immoral, 2) violates a State law against disrobing in public, 3) encroaches on her Constitutional right to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Privacy in the Bath | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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