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...suit was started for a review of its administration. Some 45 heirs filed cross suits. The case was in the courts for eleven years. Her brother, George J. Gould, whom the others accused of malfeasance, was finally removed as a trustee. In the end, although no wrong-doing was found against her, the trustees settled the case for $20,000,000. On the stand she testified: "I do not know how much money I gave away, but I think I gave away most of it." Day after the case was settled she resigned as a trustee. The settlement...
...good deal more wrought up than slow-spoken Carmi Thompson, Chairman Marshall pointed out that a Department of Justice investigation four years ago found nothing wrong. Snapped he: "If the SEC followed the same liquidity rule they are trying to force on us they would ruin a good many insurance companies...
...liquors, too many cigarettes smouldering in ashtrays, and too much gaiety. It is a desperate gaiety; this party has to be better, livelier, than last night's because this is a bigger night; and last night's had to surpass the one before, and so on. Somehow, everything is wrong. Somehow, the excellent orchestra is too loud, too fast. Somehow, the floor is too crowded, the decorations too garishly bizarre...
...diet of our milk-toast civilization. Last week Columbia University Bacteriologist Theodor Rosebury, who has been to Alaska himself, disputed this standard theory of dental decay. According to his investigations, reported at a medico-dental session of the Greater New York Dental Meeting, previous theorists had been drawing the wrong conclusions from Eskimos...
...emphasized that although they had a terrific brain, the rest of their body was pretty poor. "Notice that one," he said sympathetically. "His fins flap the wrong way for some reason, and he can't steer to save his neck...