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...onetime Solicitor General Thomas D. Thacher and John F. MacLane (both of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett) for the utilities, Solicitor General-nominee Robert Jackson and Ben Cohen for the Government. Meanwhile, in Chicago, SEC Chairman William 0. Douglas argued the case before the Commonwealth Club: "I am shocked at the far-flung cry of 'Wolf, wolf' from the mouths of management over the grave dangers of the misnamed 'death sentence,' for I know the fears which that spectre generates in investors. And I know how unfounded that fear is, because I know that its basic threat...
...afternoon last week the Palestine Potash Works on the Dead Sea closed for the rest of the day. On the same day the New York Times printed in honor of one man three columns of close-packed memorial notices. Demonstrations of sympathy occurred in such far-flung places as London, Jerusalem, Paris. For death had come to Felix Moritz Warburg, 66, banker, philanthropist, recognized leader of U. S. Jews...
Hour exams for many who come from far-flung high schools and preparatory schools that do not have the same teaching methods as Harvard, present a high hurdle. The system of teaching is arranged here so that examinations count for a major part of the academic training, especially in Freshman year, where courses are large, and there is no tutorial guidance to help the student on his way. But to pass these examinations it is fair to say that no especial genius is required. When a student has done a fair amount of work and is able to organize...
...haste, to catch the wanderers. He had news. Good news: the Queen would see them; she would help them! Come back to Cordoba. The Queen would sell her jewels that the traveller and his companion might have a fleet to seek a Western passage to the Indies and the far-flung realms of the East...
...between the traffic in housemaids and in prostitutes was something which Baltimoreans had to think about last week when J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation suddenly pounced upon ten local houses and arrested 50 women. He believed them all victims of white slavery, pawns of a far-flung ring. Said he: "Conditions are very...