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...canny, close-knit, tight-lipped clan are the Browns but Depression in the paper & pulp industry was too much for even them. Though they carefully kept all common stock within the family, both preferred stock and bonds were sold to the public. Preferred dividends were stopped in 1931 but despite a series of deficits footing up to more than $14,000,000 in four years, bond interest was paid promptly. Last week, however, with "deepest regret," the Browns announced that they would have to default their obligations. They admitted that business was better in the first half of this year...
...that meant that the company was pensioning him off, Mr. Pratt must have had his tongue in his cheek. The Pratt family's interest in Socony is exceeded only by that of the Rockefellers, Harknesses and Whitneys. And the Pratt family is a close-knit unit. On a 1,000-acre tract in lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout...
...close-knit organization like the parent company in Louisiana. For Huey Long has, practically speaking, no personal friends in official Washington. He used to go out sometimes with Senator Wheeler until Senator Wheeler decided he had better keep to quieter company. Although he is on speaking terms with every Senator, there are few members who relish talking to him. He has openly threatened to campaign in the next election against Senators Robinson, Harrison and Bailey. As a whole the Senate dislikes and fears...
...against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult as the Passing Leap) of getting the circus' gaudy, pastel colors in oils. Circus action gave play to his potent, compact drawing, his flair for packing a lot of disorganized life into a close-knit composition...
...Odyssey, he says, is "neat, close-knit, artful and various" but "never huge or terrible," never "great art. ... In this tale every big situation is burked and the writing is soft." Homer he calls "as muddled an antiquary as Walter Scott. . . . He thumb-nailed well" but his characterization was "thin and accidental." Though some modern scholars agree with him that The Odyssey is a much later work than The Iliad, most will think Shaw goes too far in saying "this Homer lived too long after the heroic age to feel assured and large." Penelope is "the sly cattish wife," Odysseus...