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Last week the new, bland, stiff-collared president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Very Rev. Jeremiah Joseph Callahan.* declared "the problem can easily be solved by plane geometry." He said he had done it in less than two months after the June semester closed. His mathematical reputation (his book Euclid or Einstein? on parallelism is to be published next month) gives prestige to his statement. The Callahan trisection depends "on the geometry of a plane figure that is not treated in Euclid, or in those modern works that are based on Euclid. When certain theorems concerning this figure are demonstrated...
...body of pretty young Ellen O'Sullivan was found in a bog. Ellen was a dairymaid employed by the Rathmore Creamery in County Kerry. The clothes were torn from her body, her head was bashed in by a boulder. All in all it looked pretty bad for Jeremiah Cronin, a neighboring farmer. He was Ellen's acknowledged sweetheart, and his bicycle was found not far from the scene of the crime...
...Court, whistled softly as he scanned a petition in bankruptcy. Against $100 in assets he saw arrayed $44,462,913 in liabilities. In all his 25 years of service Clerk Gilkes could not recall such enormous liabilities in a bankruptcy case. He looked at the signature of the petitioner-Jeremiah K. Donovan-and scratched his head in perplexity...
...Jeremiah K. Donovan is a smallish man who brushes up his hair into an impressive pompadour and who wears ice-cream suits and gay bow ties in the summertime. He works as a clerk in a tiny office in Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co., goes home every night to a furnished room in Brooklyn. When newshawks swooped down on him last week they found him unperturbed by his bankruptcy, and quite sane. It was a real bankruptcy, and his assets were only $100, and his liabilities were over $44,000,000-and yet his creditors would lose considerably less than...
Because they were the co-authors of the carriers' petition Railroad Presidents John Jeremiah Pelley (New York, New Haven & Hartford), Henry Alexander Scandrett (Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific) and Whitefoord R. Cole (Louisville & Nashville) appeared to repeat orally their written arguments for a rate increase. Mr. Pelley, speaking for all eastern roads, contended that the rate increase was sought only to tide the roads over to better times and avert wage cuts. Spokesman for all Western lines, Mr. Scandrett testified that the carriers asked for a rate increase only as "a last resort" to save their credit structure...