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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader Knowlton may now hear of a fourth definition of barratry, given in the Webster International and Oxford dictionaries: The "practice of exciting and encouraging or maintaining lawsuits or quarrels; persistent excitement of litigation...
...Next day's was just as bad. The third day of the cruise, when the President's onetime law partner Basil O'Connor joined the party, there was no fishing at all. Stormbound and anchored off Block Island, the President resigned himself to a press conference. Fourth day, en route back to Hyde...
...182Eighteen-year-old Bob Feller, famed Cleveland pitcher: his fourth baseball game of the season; against the fourth-place Boston Red Sox; in which he struck out 16 batters, one less than the modern major-league record he shares with Dizzy Dean; at Cleveland. This is the second time within a year that young Feller, whose arm has been ailing all summer, has equalled or broken the American League strikeout record of 16, set by Rube Waddell 29 years...
...York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
...Golds in his or her community as a result of the contest. Last week Lorillard positively refused to make public any of the prize-winning letters or the names of the judges. Second prize of $30,000 went to Pharmacist Florence Zimmermann in Peoria, Ill. Third and fourth prizes, $10,000 each, were won by an automobile accessory salesman in Seattle and a chemical engineer in Philadelphia. Impressed by the mighty fillip the contest had given to its sales, Lorillard confounded almost all observers by announcing this week a "bigger & better" contest. For a list of prizes totaling...