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...York City, Portland (Me.), Philadelphia, Albany and Baltimore territory which foresaw damage to existing trade routes should oceanic traffic be diverted to the North. Loudest objectors were U. S. railroads, seconded by their organized security holders including banks and insurance companies. Great Lakes ship owners likewise heckled at the threat of invasion of their fresh-water domain by foreign craft...
...take his suit to the high court of Washington. Of course the Supreme Court, by solemn decision of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes handed down last week, upheld the New York Central leases. But Old Man Venner was the gainer-because he had carried out his threat of suit so that the next corporation he attacks will know that what Old Man Venner says Old Man Venner means...
When Mr. Cord in Beverly Hills. Calif, saw the imminence of that threat last week he fairly popped with rage, sent his lawyers rushing into court at Wilmington. Del. Just as the Avco directors sat down to complete their merger plans for submission to stockholders, the Wilmington court granted a temporary injunction restraining the board from further action. Avco pried loose the injunction, but agreed not to consider the deal further until next week when Mr. Cord would be back in New York...
Appalled by this threat, the police sought instructions from their superiors who pensively ruled that the "nudist school" is in fact a "nudist club," that nudity is no crime on the club's "private premises...
...through traffic. Last week the I. C. C. told F. & N. that unless it sells out for $200,000 S. P. will be granted permission to build parallel tracks. This would cost S. P. only $1,153,000 and would put F. & N. out of business. The "parallel track threat'' will never serve to arbitrate differences between major railroads, but railroadmen last week thought the I. C. C. had found a potent way to drag small railroads from holdout corners...