Word: lowerers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both accidents happened in 1934. Both were in the lower courts last year. Last week they were both the basis of unanimous and antipodal decisions of the California Supreme Court which may clarify for laymen many of the personal injury claims arising from the nation's annual 6,500,000 automobile accidents...
...when the main purpose of the auto trip is the joint pleasure of the participants, passengers are merely guests even if they share the expenses. This is "nothing more than the exchange of social amenities," is not "payment for the transportation." Affirmed the Court: Dr. Walker could recover the lower court's award of $25,000 damages from Partner Adamson; the Biff Hoffmans were not liable for the $31,237.65 damages claimed by the McCanns, good friends no longer...
...study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper's and Scribner's, respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that...
When ingenious Promoter Archie Moulton Andrews was finally thrown out of the Hupp management (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935), he left the company's affairs at a lower ebb than they had ever been since young Robert Hupp sat up all one cold night to assemble his first show model in 1908. From $52,500,000 in 1929, Hupp sales had dropped to $6,118,000 in 1933 and recovered only to $6,868,000 in 1935. Depressed by Hupp's million-dollar losses and by Archie Andrews' merchandising schemes, parts supply companies were refusing to extend credit...
...Kansas City. Other bond houses were not slow to point out that the State lost about $20,000 in premiums on this deal. But last September the State Board of Fund Commissioners again sold $2,000,000 worth of bonds privately, again to Baum, Bernheimer and again at a lower premium than the bonds would have brought in public sale...