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...operating in the South (Hotel Ansley, Atlanta; the Tutwiler, Birmingham; the Andrew Jackson, Nashville) last year earned $62,000 against $251,000 in 1929. A drop to $84,000 from $120,000 was shown last year by big United Hotels Co. of America which operates 20 hotels (the Clifton and the Niagara. Niagara Falls; the King Edward, Toronto; the Durant, Flint, Mich.; the Roosevelt, Manhattan; the Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia; the President, Kansas City, Mo.; El Conquistador, Tucson, Ariz.). Big hotels in receivership include the Hotel White, the Fifth Avenue, the Allerton Houses, Manhattan. Bonds in the Stevens. Chicago, biggest...
Antiseptics. The whole philosophy of antiseptics was contained in a few words read by Herbert Clifton Hamilton, pharmacologist of Parke, Davis & Co.: "No one antiseptic will kill all kinds of germs. For example, the tetanus germ, which causes lockjaw, can be put into pure carbolic acid and remain in perfect health. Aniline dyes, which are widely used for cuts and skin injuries, kill only certain germs and leave others, equally dangerous, unscathed...
...Police let the organizers harangue their followers in vacant lots so long as they did not block traffic. Only one stone was thrown through a factory window. By the second day the strikers' ranks numbered some 2,000. When a group of agitators crossed the city line into Clifton, N. J. and began demonstrations outside the Henry Doherty Mills, 24 of them were arrested, jailed in default of $2 fines...
...right to sell as much as the market would absorb without a major price decline, despite the fact that it would lose 30^ at current prices on each & every bushel thus sold. To the pleadings of Senator Watson that all wheat be withheld from sale, greying, strong-jawed James Clifton Stone, the Board's harassed chairman, turned a deaf ear. The Board, he said, would follow its selling policy regardless of political clamor...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...