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...Commission: "I thought it unwise for our company to invest in newspapers. ... I told Graustein [Archibald Robertson Graustein, I. P. & P. president] so in private . . . but never said so in a Board of Directors meeting." In Manhattan and Richmond, Va., two more side-lights developed last week to heighten the power-paper investigation spectacle...
...will become a forum. With the decision resting in its own hands, the audience will not be content silently to sit back and let its opinions be tossed about a half dozen young men in tuxedos. It will demand and assume a voice in the argument. This contingency will heighten the competition between the two teams by swelling the ranks of the opposition. If something of the intercollegiate flavor is lost by thus admitting the commoner, the gain is a notable one, along the road leading to the conception of debate as an exercise followed not entirely...
...Austria, Styria, and Lombardy, together with heraldic lions and an eagle, the latter holding in his beak a ribbon with the letters A. E. I. O. U. (Austria Erit in Orbe Ultima)--the Emperor's favorite motto. His long flowing hair and delicate, refined lines of his aristocratic face heighten the ornate, romantic aspect of the whole composition. When we remember that it was during the weak reign of Frederick III that the decay of the medaeval imperial power approached its climax, the tragic element in all this phantastic splendor becomes apparent...
...reviling each other from their prison cells. Judd Gray, the corset-salesman, was pleading insanity and saying he had been led astray, debauched. Ruth Snyder, the wife, was professing horror and penitence, calling her paramour a low "jackal." Also there was even a child, Lorraine Snyder, aged 9, to heighten the emotionalism of the trial. Lorraine still believed her father and mother were temporarily away "on a trip...
...Todd, curious observer, wondered what effect freshmen trepidations had on freshmen stomachs; found: "When the freshman is in this unsettled emotional state we have a look at his internal mechanism. And just before he steps up to the fluoroscope, we heighten the effect by springing a booby trap on him - a loose board that makes a loud bang. In that emotional condition we find that his stomach has crawled up the length of several vertebrae. A year later, as a sophomore, we find his stomach back in place, where it ought to be. When you hear a woman describe...