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...Darling''; in Hollywood. Her first husband: Owen Moore. Her second: Douglas Fairbanks. Because hitherto unmarried Bridegroom Rogers had a "sentimental aversion" to being married in the longtime Pickford-Fairbanks home, "Pickfair," the ceremony was performed on the estate of MGM Executive Louis Lighten. Only ten close friends witnessed the ceremony, but the reception at "Pickfair" was attended...
...visible doom had aroused both State and City to consultations. Governor Bridges' textile committee pointed out that one of the immediate reasons for Amoskeag's inability to do business was a heavy burden of fixed charges. Applying for a 77B reorganization in December, Treasurer Dumaine proposed to lighten this load by getting holders of Amoskeag's outstanding $11,000,000 in bonds to exchange them for stock. Nearly half the bondholders, however, chose to take cash instead of new securities-more cash than the company could pay. The March flood completed Amoskeag's distress. Fortnight...
...burdened with debt that they were unable to pay even their fixed charges, much less to buy new equipment. Some people urged Government loans but that, declared the President, did not seem feasible. Some way, he suggested, would have to be found to readjust the railroads' capital structures, lighten their interest burdens. But he did not plan to do anything about it at this session of Congress...
Chicago and gangsters are connected in the minds of all schoolboys and Europeans, yet from Chicago comes a distinctly cheery beam to lighten the gloomy pall of crime that hangs over America, the land of the free. The Windy City's crime commission has confidently denied the possibility of a revival of gang wars, declaring that "there is nothing left to fight about." If this statement is true, and not merely an empty vaunting of civic pride, then Chicago has undeniably justified the hopes of the prophets who freed the country from prohibition shackles...
...strongly urge that the proceeds of this tax should be specifically segregated and applied, as they accrue, to the reduction of the national debt. By so doing, we shall progressively lighten the tax burden of the average taxpayer, and, incidentally, assist in our approach to a balanced budget...