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Since David Stott, founder of Stott Milling Co.. died in 1916 his seven children have fought privately (with fists) and publicly (with suits) over the management of the ten-million-dollar estate he left them. Detroit's Judge Homer Ferguson, before whom many of these suits have been tried, once said: "David Stott was able to pass on to his heirs his physical assets but not his business ability or his ability to get along with others...
...heirs of whom he spoke was middle-aged Bertha A. Stott. whose tempestuous outbursts did not subside as she outgrew tempestuous youth. When Bertha Stott, her brother David and two sisters sued another sister and two other brothers for receivership of Stott Realty Co., Judge Ferguson again had to deal with untractable witnesses. During the case David Stott was fined $100 for refusing to answer questions. Then Judge Ferguson granted the defendants' crossbill asking dissolution of the company. Up jumped Bertha Stott. She cried...
...Harris; Perkins 16: Alan Holske; Dudley 23: T. F. M. Newton; 52-60 Mt. Auburn St.; Earl Evans; 5 Linden St.: T. E. Farrell '31; 52 Plympton St.; F. E. Nugent '30; 59 Plympton St.; F. B. Clark; Claverly 23: A. W. Lott; Claverly 44: G. MacK, Ferguson; Apley 1; C. B. Salsbury; Little Hall 34; W. N. Bates, Jr. '30; Shepard 5; B. W. Hislop '31; 9 Bow St.; F. D. Miller...
...John Ferguson Moore of Manhattan, a Protestant, a onetime social worker and secretary in the Y. M. C. A., after studying the question of political, cultural, financial influence exerted by 20,000,000 U. S. Roman Catholics, has written a book.-His subject was widely publicized in 1928, has been widely discussed ever since. His conclusions may be equally discussed. He finds Catholic influence "bewilderingly slight." finds Protestants who fear Catholic control guilty of "exaggerated alarm" and Catholics who boast of such a possibility guilty of "exaggerated hope...
...years to U. S. farmers. To carry an appeal to the world when it has already fallen on deaf ears in the U. S. seemed to many delegates twice hypocritical. That Canada is not the "trusty vassal" of the U. S. appeared when Canada's George Howard Ferguson, High Commissioner of the Dominion in London and Chairman of the Wheat Conference last week, said cuttingly of the U. S. Chief Delegate's speech: "It was prepared before Mr. McKelvie came to London and perhaps without any definite relation to this Conference...