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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play must have a story, and human nature, in order to be studied, must have situations to react upon; but in the last two acts there seems to be a lack of balance between comic situation and characterization, the latter being, we are given to understand, the main purpose of the Kentucky plays. The people tend to be obscured by the very plot which never fails to keep us laughing. And after the story is done, back we come in a short tag-ending to Beem's poetry of life, as if the author had suddenly remembered what the play...
...After all, the main purpose of the winter track season is to lay the foundations for the spring meets. If this winter season has developed men who will be point winners in the spring against Yale and Princeton, then I consider that it has been a success...
...main trouble with the volume of litigation is thus not with the courts, but with the legislatures. The evil resides not merely in the number of laws. It is in badly drawn laws. It is also in the compromises of legislation where the contests of opposing policies are satisfied by ambiguous phrases which transmit the difficulties of legislative bodies to the courts, who are left with the burdensome task of discovering the legislative intent, when actually there has been no defined legislative intent...
...Blodgett's main defect, as the committee views it, in his enthusiasm for more salary. He was, it is claimed, placed in the Presidency by bankers who had control of the Company, although he was quite innocent of any knowledge of the chewing-gum industry. Blodgett, however, apparently knew a trick worth two of that. His salary was increased from $20,000 to $50,000; and the increase was made retroactive for the previous year and a quarter. In the opinion of the committee the business did not warrant this munificence...
...preliminary 1923 figures for the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad are in; the showing it has made has justified its owner, Henry Ford, in his prediction. The property consists of over 400 miles of main line with trackage rights over another 50 miles, and about 160 miles of yards and sidings. When Henry Ford purchased the road on July 10, 1920, for $5,000,000, most critics thought he had been stuck rather badly at last. Indeed, during 1920, a deficit of $2,121,524 was run up. Since that time, however, Mr. Ford has routed much profitable traffic over...