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...Robert Lincoln in 1897 was found in his home in Manchester, Vt. burning his father's papers and letters. A friend tried to dissuade him, could not, hurriedly called Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who after "a most earnest discussion of the whole subject" persuaded Robert Lincoln to deposit the remainder in the Library of Congress. There they remain, not to be opened until...
...figure vaulted to 1,350. Last week the present depression had been going only six months. But in that time business generally had fallen as far as it did in the entire year after the 1929 market smash. Significant therefore was the year-end report made by Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last week...
When in 1794 James Boswell lay dying, he wrote to his brother in London, asking him to deposit ?5 to the account of a Rev. Mr. Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted...
...appointment system. Each student socially afflillated with the class will be photographed at the cost of $1.00, four proofs being shown, or at the cost of $2.00, eight proofs being shown. This amount will be paid at the time of sitting and will be deducted as a deposit on any orders for individual portraits placed by the students...
...Manhattan last week the U. S. Government won the right to reopen a claim involving $4,976,722 against Guaranty Trust Co. That sum was on deposit at the Guaranty Trust by the Russian Government Dec. 17, 1917. On Feb. 25, 1918 the bank closed the account, charging against it sums of money which were then due it from the Russian Government as successor to certain nationalized concerns which had been in debt to the bank. When, by the Litvinov Agreement of 1933, Russia turned over its accounts to the U. S., the Guaranty Trust claimed...