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John Bricker qualifies under Rule 5: as Governor he has been a success. By contrast with his predecessor, Tree Surgeon Martin Davey, he has been spectacularly able. Natty, spatty Martin Davey left Ohio nearly bankrupt, with a $40,000,000 deficit and payrolls loaded with spoilsmen...
...important railroad decisions last week the Supreme Court in effect laid down a basic principle: It is more important for bankrupt roads to drastically revise their capital structures and get in tiptop working condition than it is to protect their junior bondholders and stockholders...
...Public opinion and milk company pressure, which largely brought about regulation in the U.S. (where in 1917 only 5% of the cattle were infected), run into bigger obstacles in Britain. Immediate slaughter of infected animals would dangerously reduce the milk supply, make big demands on public funds for compensation,* bankrupt many dairymen, impair the fertility of Britain's fields by cutting down the manure supply...
...high-school graduates intended by the Army for a bit more learning before they are assigned to officers' training schools or advanced technological studies. Similar batches of 500 privates will be sent to some 300 other depopulated colleges, leaving 1,400 unfavored colleges nigh deserted and nigh bankrupt-unless the Government rescues them with new training programs...
Many Britons remembered John Amery as a precocious, contrary fop who had once been a Communist fellow traveler. He had tried film producing and gone bankrupt for more than $20,000. He had got 70 traffic convictions and been disqualified from driving for five years. He had been prevented from marrying an actress, Una Wing, in Chelsea, Paris, Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia. Then he had married her in Greece. He had been arrested in Paris on an extradition order by Greek police for passing phony checks...