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Then last year the shadow arose. New York judges high and low, who the people were sure were crooked, began to be proved crooked. The power of Tammany in which Jean Norris had always trusted seemed insufficient to confound the inquisitors. Jean Norris' turn approached...
...plan charge that, since redistributing firms will support their stocks during the process of redistribution, another artificial phase will be added to the Exchange's famed "free and open market." They warn that specialists on the Exchange, angry at the loss of potential business, may confound price movements. They say that, theoretically at least, the Exchange may no longer boast its historic attitude: "No Securities For Sale." They warn that if stocks collapse after being sold at prices formally approved by the Exchange, the public will lose all faith in the country's most famed market...
...individual transport companies had not gone far in their experimentation and practice when the need for coordination became evident. There was costly duplication of ground equipment and labor. There was a variety of practices which threatened to confound the interstate flyer of the future. Moreover, a central administrator was needed to conserve the few frequency channels assigned by the Federal Radio Commission to air transport operators...
...five years on the Supreme bench, Justice Stone has displayed a breadth of character and humanity to confound the six Senate critics who voted against his confirmation. They still wonder whether he is a liberal conservative or a conservative liberal. More and more has he joined intellectual forces with those two celebrated dissenters of the bench, Justices Holmes and Brandeis. With them he lined up, for example, against the Court's approval of wiretapping as a means of obtaining Prohibition evidence. Every legal controversy is of deep interest to him. He avoids the specialization of some of his associates...
...Harvard congratulate her traditional rival; powers of selection such as this are scarcely to be found even in the judges of the Atlantic City beauty contest, who, one is lead to believe, yearly pick the "best looking" American. Not content with mere externals, however, Yale Seniors confidently proceed to confound the personnel workers of a nation by the closest determination of so-called personality traits...