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About three quarters of the purchasers of automobiles pay for them on credit over the course of the following year. The theoretical risk to the sellers has led progressive Walter P. Chrysler to adopt a plan whereby each purchaser of a Chrysler car will automatically receive a fire and theft insurance policy on it. The cost of the insurance is included in the price of the car. Thus not only is the owner protected, but also the maker. The idea has also appealed strongly to the General Motors Corporation, who are said to favor its adoption on their enormous output...
...public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...kitchen sink, out of sight. They realize that crime news is unavoidable in newspapers−indeed to some extent salutary for its purgative effect upon society−but they do not see that the front page is the logical repository for society's daily wastage−murder, arson, theft...
...mutilation, and abuses of purposely lenient rules but repeats common knowledge; the student body is well aware that some users of the library are robbing the rest by mean and annoying practices. The whole gamut of petty crime, from defacement of pictures and pages to temporary removal or real theft, is traversed by a few, too inconsiderate of others and too greedy of their own convenience...
...Fallen was chief counsel for "Nicky" Arnstein, so-called Master Mind of the $5,000,000 Wall Street bond-theft plot. In 1922, he defended E. M. Fuller in two trials for bucketing, the jury in each trial being unable to agree. Charles W. Rendigs, the juror Fallon was accused of bribing in the Durrell-Gregory trial, also sat in one of the Fuller trials and voted steadfastly for acquittal. Rendigs is now a convicted perjurer awaiting sentence...