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...dead locked on this case. Hiram C.Todd, special State prosecutor, agreed to the dismissal of the Ewalds' indictments, on the ground that the juries' failure to agree "fairly represents the present state of the collective conscience of the community in cases of this character." Revived was the old political axiom of New York: A Tammany man cannot be convicted in Tammany Town...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
...Lead-off endorser in the other campaign-of-the-week was no vaudevillian but Brig.-General Samuel McRoberts, Chairman of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. Banker McRoberts said: "Making friends and holding them by a friendly up-to-date usefulness is the secret of success in business. This axiom has been the guiding force in the progress of Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Co. And it is obviously the guiding force in your business ?as evidenced by your use of ultra violet ray in the 'toasting' of the Lucky Strike tobaccos...
Plan Facts. "The nations of Europe today must unite in order to live and prosper." declares M. Briand's plan. This is his axiom, his slogan. He proposes "a moral union of Europe" based on "a Pact of General Order, however elementary...
...unfair to their respective collegiate opponents to play former college stars against them. The Army doubted the truth of the first of these statements and resented any remarks about the proselyting of college athletes. Now the greatest star in the Army firmament proves the truth of the Navy axiom. First, by his attempted honorary resignation, and then by his requested one, Cagle has shown that he never wanted to enter the Army. He wanted to play football. The Navy can now congratulate itself on its stand for it has been proved by the enemy...