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After the books are closed and Mr. Littman goes into an automobileless retirement, the riding equipment department, bought by a director, will be run under the name Sickles, Inc. But the few customers of the commercial harness departments will have to ferret out other manufacturers, or else go to the mail order houses, still selling many a horsey thing, perhaps a major factor in the downfall of J. B. Sickles...
Library to ferret among reports sent to Rome by 16th Century Spanish priests on Mayan culture. Dawes-backed, Professor Clark hopes to find references to the "lost continent" of Atlantis in the documents...
Lawyers. Students of Dishonesty have recently had an absorbing spectacle in New York City, where the blight has been found to pervade even the courts which are supposed to ferret it out. An investigation of Magistrates' Courts, following upon a curious dinner attended by notable criminals and given to City Magistrate Albert H. Vitale (TIME, Jan. 6), has led to an expose of extensive, sly malpractice. Sample: Last week one Joseph Wolf man was apprehended playing checkers in a Jersey City Y. M. C. A. For four years he has appeared in Manhattan courts, a bogus lawyer who declared...
...Vatican City it was feared that the loss to His Holiness would be much greater than the theft of Commendatore Jorio, due to the failure of Banco Bombelli immediately after his flight. Meantime even more distressing rumors spread. Miss Beatrice Baskerville, enterprising news ferret of the New York World heard in Vatican City that the Papal Treasury lost heavily in Wall Street's slump (TIME, Nov. 4). According to reports, verified from several sources, U. S. public utility and steel stocks were those held. Certain parcels were sold early in the slump and most of the remainder were sacrificed...
...gave out a great deal of information about the Plan as it was then being formulated, but nobody except the News and the Inquisitor had anything to say, except that maybe the Administration knew what it was about. Naturally, the News supported the Plan, because it always tries to ferret out and represent "undergraduate opinion...