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Standard's Leo Crowley said that his senior security holders would become equity owners of everything except Standard's rich Duquesne Light (in Pittsburgh, which nets $10,000,000 a year); and that Standard, debt-free, would be pared down to Duquesne. This plan, said Crowley, affords"full...
Such a force in Harvard life today deserves examination, not only because of its intrinsic contemporary importance, but also because of the inherent drama of its history. For the University Theatre is the daughter of strife.
Douglas Reed (Insanity Fair, Disgrace Abounding) is a supercilious, nervous British journalist, erstwhile correspondent of the London Times. His noisome Nemesis? must be taken with a grain of bath salt, but it has intrinsic interest.
Died. Selma Lagerlof, 81, novelist (Gosta Berling, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, The General's Ring) and grand old lady of Swedish letters; of peritonitis; in Marbacka, Sweden. First woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy, she last...
Meanwhile, auction houses sprang up at every corner. Farmers refused to sell their produce for such dubious exchange, traded milk, eggs, potatoes for pianos and fur coats. Dentists hoarded gold; china, rugs, pictures, electrical equipment, furniture were at a premium as Germans tried to put all their available cash in...