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...told that the leaguers may perhaps avail themselves of the Calvin Coolidge homestead in which to carry out the ritual. They are to be congratulated on this particularly happy choice, for brevity of speech certainly deserves to be commemorated with brevity of costume. The only unfortunate aspect of all this, is that very likely no new members will be admitted until April, the rigours of a New England winter being considered too severe for mere neophytes, Norman Fradd or no Norman Fradd...
When he snickeringly told smutty stories, Mrs. Campbell put ice packs on his head, to no avail, and sent their only child, Doris June, 7, to her maternal grandparents, farmers near Columbus...
...order. ....* I feel that we are confronted by the most serious situation which has beset us since the disaster of 1906. I therefore proclaim to all the people of San Francisco, irrespective of party or industrial affiliation, that an emergency exists in our city . . . and that I will avail myself of ... the laws of our State, to the end that the results of this industrial conflict may fall as lightly as possible on all our people. We must realize that our government is bigger and greater than any organization or association which may be one of its component parts...
...Manhattan, first was Radio-Keith Orpheum, which subsided into receivership early last year. Boom-time theatre rentals got RKO, and even a voluntary reorganization, which gave control to Radio Corp. of America, was of no avail. Quick to join the sad parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn...
...however, was that they proved the old rates confiscatory as well as the new. The financial history of the company, wrote the Chief Justice, "repels the suggestion that during all these years it was suffering from confiscatory rates. . . . Elaborate calculations which are at war with realities are of no avail. . . . Proving too much, they fail of the intended effect." The Court ordered the injunction dissolved, the company to refund to telephone subscribers a total of nearly $20,000,000 approximately the company's entire surplus and more than twice the cash & securities in its treasury at year...