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...Harvey Firestone's spears in the past have been price-cuts and letters to his stockholders impaling his Akron neighbors. This time the spear-thrower was the U. S. Government. The Federal Trade Commission last week charged that Goodyear, world's biggest tiremaker. has been enjoying an un holy relationship with Sears, Roebuck & Co., biggest U. S. mail-order house. Said the Commission: "Respondent [Goodyear] has since May, 1926, discriminated in price . . . between the different purchasers of its products by giving and allowing Sears, Roebuck & Co. a lower price . . . than purchasers competitively engaged in said line of commerce...
Almost Kiplingesque was Governor Norman's speech. Britain had grown great by evolution, he declared, while other nations tried revolutionary panaceas essentially un-British. "We shall have many difficulties and much criticism," cried Governor Norman, "but I console myself with this thought: 'The dogs bark but the caravan passes...
...Whistler-A boy in Vermont, accustomed to working alone, was so prone to whistling, that, as soon as he was by himself, he un- consciously commenced. When asleep, the muscles of his mouth, chest, and lungs were so completely concatenated in the association, he whistled with astonishing shrillness. A pale countenance, loss of appetite, and almost total prostration of strength, convinced his mother it would end in death, if not speedily overcome, which was accomplished by placing him in the society of another boy, who had orders to give him a blow as soon as he began to whistle...
...went into effect in Illinois giving minority stockholders the right in case of a reorganization to demand a fair appraisal of their equity and to be paid the amount thereof in cash. 2) Three groups of stockholders cropped up to object that the terms of the reorganization were un- fair...
...United States is no Jesus Christ. It cannot go down into a graveyard and raise a stinking Lazarus. God Almighty could not raise the First National [Bank]. "It is not a crime but an honor to be a capitalist. There is nothing un-Christian about...