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...could collect 25% of what is left after the State pays its lawyers to prosecute the suit. Technicalities over the $160,000 have at long last reached the U. S. Supreme Court whose rulings in comparable cases have upheld the escheat rights of the States. Spurred by the distant glint of a $34,000 commission on the $160,000, Prospectors Edelman & Creskoff went sluicing up the creeks of other Pennsylvania escheat tributaries. Taking corporations capitalized at above $2,000,000, they analyzed corporation statements and manuals, traced unclaimed dividends, stocks, bonds, interest, unclaimed deposits by gas, telephone and water customers...
With a satisfied glint behind his thick- lensed spectacles, stoop-shouldered Turkish Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushtu Aras left Geneva last week where he had been representing his country at the League Council's 96th session (TIME, Feb. 1). That suave diplomat, onetime obstetrician, had now delivered for Turkey a League settlement of the Turkish-French dispute over the sanjak (district) of Alexandretta which Dictator Mustafa Kamal Ataturk had demanded that France hand to him from her Syrian mandate (TIME...
...take the high note solo. Nevertheless, age has evidently made a slight nick in Durante's notorious rhetorical self-assurance. At one point in Red, Hot and Blue the magniloquent clown emphatically declares of one turn of events: "It's propitious!" Then a cloud dims the glint in his mad, beady eyes as he adds: "I think...
From across the field came the heavy roll of drums, muffled under their black covers. Down the field came the glint of bayonets, the flash of many flags, and then silently over the turf came the entire army of Poland. Every general of division, every colonel of every regiment was there marching beside his regimental colors and a platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over...
...country seats of the mighty. He tarried at metropolitan hostelries and rural inns. He ran by rivers at twilight and by factories in the glare of noon. Mountains shouldered out of the plains in front and fell away to the horizons behind. He saw the sun catch the chromium glint, of the skyscraper and he watched a single pine tear the rising moon to shreds on a distant hill. And always by the side of old and winding roads, on the kerbs of four-width highways, red dress. On steps, in doorways, by the side of old and winding roads...