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...been wrong-something that President Roosevelt himself has never done except about Thanksgiving. The author of this graceful admission is that urbanely dogmatic Jesuit, the very square-jawed Very Rev. Robert Ignatius Gannon S.J., who made it to his own students at the formal opening of Fordham's joist academic year...
Last week, after six years' inspection of every scantling and joist of MOP's overbalanced capital structure, the Interstate Commerce Commission issued its plan of reorganization. For holders of common and preferred stock with a stated value of $152,000,000, the bad news was set down on Page 2 of a 280-page report: "The equities of the holders ... are found to have no value and the holders of those stocks are given no participation in the allotment of securities of the new company...
...trace the course of either Promoter Andrews or his fortune during those 50 years but Andrews acquaintances readily believe his story that he made his first money doing a song & dance number with his brother in the back rooms of Chicago saloons. He still is a lively ban joist, but plays now in "Freestone Castle...
...removed for examination by Harvard medicos, Massachusetts returned what remained of its prisoners to their friends, who straightway sought a public hall for a public wake. But Boston hall owners refused to lease their property. Owners of the building in which the Defense Committee had offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets...
...this association." The rules of the Amateur Athletic Union governing relay races were accepted almost in their entirety. Contestants in the broad jump were voted an unlimited run, but the take-off must be from behind the scratch line, which was defined as the outer edge of a joist eight inches wide, set firmly in and on the same level with the ground. A new paragraph was added to article 23 of the Law of Athletics, as follows: "A competitor knocking down three or more hurdles or any portion of three or more hurdles in a race, shall be disqualified...