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...Reed, and his fellow Republicans in Chicago, are angry because they had to surrender the key to their enfiefed barn before the first of the month. The point they miss, the point the Supreme Court missed, the point our legislators miss is so elementary that their refusal to grasp it must be disingenuous. Why should the divorce of our civil service from politics stop just on the threshold of social utility? Why should every office sufficiently exalted to arrest the interest of a capable man, or well paid enough to support him, remain in the grab bag of our party...
...defunct bosdhouse of S. W. Straus & Co. ("44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor") was unceremoniously arrested in Manhattan last August on a charge of grand larceny brought by two Straus bondholders, the Misses Anna & Katherine Kuhlmann (TIME, Sept. 11). Last week Nick Roberts, whose annual barn party for Yale footballers in Montclair, N. J. was a nationally famed event, was completely exonerated. After a short trial the judge ruled that there "was not a scintilla of evidence" to support the charges...
...alma mater. In 1918, risen to be vice president of famed S. W. Straus & Co., the bondhouse that advertised "44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni who had "won their Y in life...
Hail In Richland County, Wis., Roy Ewing ran barefoot to his barn wrecked by a July hailstorm, stood ankle-deep in hail while freeing his cattle, had his feet frozen...
...throw of the old Crawford farm where he built a palatial home so that he could hear the rumble of the rolling mills from his bedroom window. But instead of winding up companies like his predecessors, Steelman Crawford for exercise winds up the huge collection of clocks in his barn...