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...fellow-slaves till the soldiers began to come and commandeer stock. When three Confederate divisions marched by one day, Grammy knew that the Yankees could never lick so many men. But then the overseer had to join the army, and with the white folks gone the slaves began to fade away. Grammy had been left in charge, but finally he faded too. In New Orleans he was much surprised to be told he was free, not nearly so surprised when he and his family were herded into a guarded camp. Freedom was not what he had heard it cracked...
...hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary District scandal began to fade most people were ready to forgive and forget whatever part friendly, genial Ed Kelly might have had in it. But since then things have changed. The U.S. had jailed Gangster Al Capone for eleven years for dodging his income tax. Many a good Chicagoan agreed with President Roosevelt in principle...
...border, but when he finds that he has been unknowingly carrying dope in the plane, he thinks of the children who will be corrupted, of mothers, and especially of a ten year jail sentence. Bette Davis as the heroine acts as well as ever, and as seductively. She will fade even more rapidly than Marlene Dietrich if the directors persist in exploiting her physical charm instead of her ability...
...France and later lifting other people's travelers' checks, Mike told his many barroom friends that he had arrived on the Euro pa, stowage (TIME, Jan. 2). But the Government's case against him for illegal entry on the Europa began to fade when the North German Lloyd line maintained that Mike cauld not have come into the country on their boat. Mike soon agreed, said he had entered via Canada. Secondary plan of the Government was to deport Mike as an alien, born in Vilna, Russia. But earliest available records of his genesis place...
Thus did a company that was the epitome of U. S. corporate management 25 years ago pass through the metamorphoses typical of the last decade to a publicly owned enterprise with a hired management. And thus did a fortune founded in autocratic individualism fade into the twilight reserved for minority stockholders...