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...gallon for every gallon of these waters sold by the corporation and provided in addition that, after a profit of $30,000, the State should receive 60% of all further profits. The lease was drawn by the eminent counsel of the Commission, Judge C. C. Lester...
...sets. Vivian McGrath of Australia who holds his racket with both hands for backhands, surprised his Davis Cup teammates by losing to Harry Lee of England. Ellsworth Vines twisted his ankle but proved it was nothing serious by making short work of little Ryusaka Miki of Japan. Next day Lester Stoefen of Texas and George Patrick Hughes of Ireland defeated Lee and Clifford Sutter, respectively. Little Henri Cochet. who had been riding a bicycle to harden his leg muscles, did amazingly well for an oldster of 31 but when he played Vines in the semifinal, he lost...
...Park Avenue apartment building which also houses Sherry's, swank restaurant. In summer he goes in his Rolls-Royce to his place in fashionable West Hampton. L. I. where he surrounds himself with as many as possible of his enormous family. He has three sons, Paul, Lester & Arthur - all working in the business - and four daughters, Helen, Mabel, Emma, Alice. All seven are married and have presented Father Cuddihy with a grand total of 28 grandchildren (some of them nearly as old as his youngest daughter). A frequent summer visitor is the Rt. Rev. Msgr. John P. Chidwick. famed...
...ready to operate. In preliminary workouts it produced six million volts, would have produced ten million had not the difference diffused into the metal walls of Col. Green's hangar. Workmen now are insulating those walls, and Robert J. Van de Graaff (who designed the apparatus) and Lester Clare Van Atta and E. W. Samson (who collaborated) are busily completing a special kind of x-ray tube through which the volts may shoot to shatter atoms. Atoms must be broken up if scientists are ever to know precisely what everything is made...
...innocently trapped in a dilemma which was the chief characteristic of Dreiser's book. Donald Cook, Sylvia Sidney and a character actress named Greta Meyer, in the role of an old cousin who takes care of Jennie's daughter, are perfectly cast. Good sequence: A policeman arresting Lester when, for a joke, he is pretending to be trying to scrape acquaintance with Jennie...