Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Classic Program...
...finger so many that ring true as Selma Lagerlöf (pronounced Lahgerlef). A Swede who, in spite of international temptations, has remained stoutly Scandinavian, she has won her country's Nobel Prize (1909) without the slightest implication of local favoritism. She has written not only an international classic for children (The Wonderful Adventures of Nils) but an international classic for grown-ups (The Ring of the Löwenskölds). She is one of those rare writers whose flavor is not spoiled by translation. And at 76 she remains a concentratedly salty, not a feebly sour human...
Thousands of pages have been written about Hydro, most of them dedicated to the proposition that this classic example of public ownership does-or does not- sell power as cheaply as could a private company. There is little argument about actual domestic rates: they are lower, with rare exceptions, than any iri the U. S. The squabble is over technicalities like the question of whether Hydro favors domestic customers at the expense of commercial and industrial users; or what adjustment should be made for Hydro's low taxes. Most comparisons of Hydro's rates with U. S. rates...
...late battle tenderly preserved in ice and sent forward." Author Pratt never hesitates to give his opinion of Civil War personalities, calls General Burnside "a pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated...
...second classic example of banker-management was rehashed in the St. Louis-San Francisco bankruptcy hearing in Manhattan. Late in 1925 Frisco's Edward Norphlet Brown, alarmed over the "strategic" situation in his territory, proposed to his bankers that they purchase working control of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, whose 8,330 miles of line far exceeded Frisco's 5,859 miles. For James ("Jimmy") Speyer, the shrewd, dapper, little 73-year-old banker who, for all practical purposes, is Speyer & Co., that deal proved highly profitable. From commissions and the firm's own speculative commitments, Speyer...