Word: fourths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican gubernatorial primary in a trilemma. The factors of an oldtime dilemma were there -La Follettism v. Regularity-Candidate Joseph David Beck v. Fred R. Zimmerman, the present Governor. To these a third candidate had added himself, Candidate Walter Jodok Kohler of Kohler, Wis., and Kohler Plumbing. A fourth man, John Ferris, was also running...
...year 1926, the latest figures available show that 1/20th of 1% of the 430,000 corporations in this country earned 40% of their profits; 40% of the corporations actually lost money; one-fourth of 1% of these corporations earned two-thirds of the profits of all of them. Specific industries are wholly prostrate and there is widespread business difficulty and discontent among the individual businessmen of the country...
...Gambling be stopped, together with the Vice that was reported in conjunction. A Manhattan newspaper (Evening Post) soon reported more Gambling and Vice in another New York county (Suffolk). It described a discreet, highly expensive casino on an island near Montauk Point, L.I. The games were said to be "fourth largest in the U.S.," smaller only than the games at three unnamed places in Florida. The casino, named the Montauk Island Club and operated by the hotel syndicate which is glorifying Long Island's cool tip, promptly closed its doors, much to the regret of summer-bored Wealth...
...Story. Through three volumes of well-bred indiscretions Prince Genji proved himself master of the delectable art of making love. In the fourth, with old age creeping on, he proves himself master of the art of being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though...
Studebaker-Pierce Arrow. Stockholders of Pierce Arrow Motor Car Co. met, last week, to approve plans for an alignment (not a merger) with Studebaker Corp., bringing together companies with total assets of $200,000,000, making the fourth largest manufacturing unit in the industry. Studebaker will invest $2,000,000 in a reorganized Pierce Arrow company, call upon its selling organization to increase Pierce Arrow production to 15,000 cars yearly...