Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incompetent and immaterial crimes, what jut up solidly are Designer Harry Homers amazingly clever reproductions of Manhattan's famed library-reading room, Braille room, entrance lobby, even one of the snooty stone lions that guard the portals. Roaming through the vast institution with more sinister motives than are common to real life, a blind woman (Ellen Hall), her husband (Arnold Korff) and a good many other people get into a good many messes, read very few books...
When a child's milk tooth decays and is pulled before a permanent tooth is ready to replace it, the jaw may shrink and become malformed. As one way of combatting this common dental accident. Dentist Kenneth A. Easlick of the University of Michigan last week announced a neat trick: plugging the cavity in the tooth with a paste of paraformaldehyde. Such a chemical desensitizes and mummifies the tooth. Therefore the tooth stays in place, may be filled and helps maintain the shape of the jaw until the permanent tooth ripens and pushes out the mummified milk tooth...
...have the money and we will lend it to them right. Not for refinancing but for anything that will put men to work." Back cracked the industry's spokesman, President Wendell Willkie of Commonwealth & Southern: "Greatest immediate requirement of the utility industry is a large inflow of common capital indispensable for much-needed additional construction. Loans by the government will not solve the problem. The solution is dependent on a restoration of confidence on the part of potential utility investors. This confidence can only be restored by a clarification of the power policy of the administration...
Basement of this railroad empire is Chesapeake & Ohio, which made $34,500,000 in 1937. From the penthouse Robert Young has held control of this prize possession through ownership of 46% of the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of all. In between Alleghany and C. & O. is another holding company, Chesapeake Corp., which owns 35% of C. & O. common stock. Guaranty Trust Co. has its hands on the elevator connecting all three because it has possession of Alleghany's 71% interest in Chesapeake Corp. as collateral on three bond issues now in technical default...
...York court to rule that there be no Chesapeake Corp. meeting until the court has passed on Guaranty's right to vote the stock (TIME, April 25). In the interim Robert Young has gone down the backstairs by getting the public holders of C. & O. common stock to rally to the defense of its present officers. Last week at the C. & O. meeting in Richmond they did so 3,175,000 shares (41%) strong, said to be the largest number of stockholders by person or proxy at any meeting in C. & O. history. Since Chesapeake Corp. has only...