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...Tammany backing) five years later, was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1914. For almost every office to which he was elected he had been previously defeated on the ticket of another party. In 1916 he was the Democratic nominee for Governor. Tammany knifed him, Theodore Roosevelt mysteriously withdrew Progressive support. Disillusioned, Samuel Seabury retired to private practice...
...Britannia withdrew from the next day's racing and left the King's cup an easy prey for indefatigable Sir Thomas Lipton. He had won it once before, in 1908. This year he won it as a member of the most exclusive club in the world, the Royal Yacht Squadron...
...synthetic product. But unbudgeable was Dr. Hermann Schmitz of Germany's I. G. Farben-industrie (who last week became all Germany's financial mentor-see p. 15). When Dr. Schmitz suddenly revealed that Germany had placed a prohibitive tariff on Chilean nitrates the South American nation withdrew from the cartel. For one more night the other nations wrangled among themselves, then gave up. Competition, free and bitter, reigns in the nitrate world...
...Deal. National Dairy Products Co. last week withdrew its offer for Golden State Milk Products Co. stock. Minority stockholders of Golden State had protested that National's one-share-for-two proposal was unfair, raised hullabaloo...
...company's business is in staples with large consumption (Lorna Doone Shortbreads, Slim Jim Pretzel Sticks, Holland Rusk, Butter Wafers, Snow Peaks) much of it goes into 500 varieties of biscuits and cookies which enjoy the public's favor briefly and are discontinued, replaced. Last year Nabisco withdrew 150 varieties, sent out a similar number of new ones. The problems involved are many in addition to those of cooking. A biscuit must be attractive in appearance so that the ultimate consumer will feel a definite urge to bite it. It must be tasty so that he will not feel disappointed...