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...milk of human kindness to curdle. Her son she considers a weakling, and she is on the verge of making her daughter an automaton, trained to carry on the Green tradition of close-fisted, hard-hearted dealings. It happens that the son redeems himself, and the young girl's dormant emotions are awkened by the agency of Mr. James Hall, who, incidentally, turned in a rather flabby performance...
...Rhode Island bank deposits go to the State if they have been unclaimed for 15 years. In most States, deposits cease to earn interest after 20 years, must be left inviolate by the bank. Dormant accounts are a nuisance, an expense, since they require constant tracing, frequent publication. In New York State unclaimed deposits come to about $1,500,000 out of five billions...
...because planes used by Army & Navy had joy-sticks.* Also he sued Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing Co. and Chance-Vought Corp. for their commercial planes. The Fairchild com pany settled out of court this year. The Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand $2,500,000 royalties from the Government alone, untold sums from commercial builders in future suits...
...Francis Eustace Fronczak who last week returned to Buffalo where he has been health officer since 1910, the conference decided "that a terrific bombardment has little effect on the nerves of a normal person. Shell shock is not caused by war. It is a neurotic trouble which has lain dormant and has been aggravated...
When Professor Mendelssohn-Bartholdy lectures at Emerson tomorrow night, undergraduates will be able to hear a distinguished authority speak on one of the most crucial political questions in Western Europe today, the relations between France and Germany. The struggle which has never been long dormant since the Treaty of Verdun in 1843 has manifested itself again in general suspicion and some show of hostility since the proposed Austro-German customs union was announced. On the issue of the present crisis will depend the Briand Pan-European Plan, and perhaps indirectly, the peace of Europe...