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...short sales "below'' the last price, SEC's action was not on its face of great importance. * More significant was SEC's remark that since the exchange's rule had not been effective, SEC would have to take over. Having thus prepared for a drag-out scrap Bill Douglas was surprised and pleased by the new exchange proposal. The Conway committee was made up of three exchange members, two nonmember partners and four outsiders, of whom one was New Dealer Adolf A. Berle Jr. and another, Publisher Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal...
...reporter is 59 but not corpulent, weighs 128 lb. at 5 ft. 6. The boy was taken directly home, without the reporter stopping for photographs or to telephone his newspaper en route, which would have given the Times an earlier street appearance than its rivals. Please correct your "drag-out and flooring" of George Weyerhaeuser...
Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery...
...annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
Eight Bells (by Percy G. Mandley; A. C. Blumenthal, producer) takes place on a crack British sailing ship, becalmed when news of the 1914 declaration of War is signaled by a passing liner. A drag-out fight has already flared between the ranting bully of a captain (Colin Clive) and his admirable first mate (John Buckler). Criminally stupid or incredibly irresponsible, the cause of the fight is the captain's wife, the owner's daughter (Rose Hobart), whom the mate once hoped to marry. The two biggest racial groups in the crew are British and German, next biggest...