Word: marched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, March 21 ... "The California Supreme Court handed down a verdict. . . ." Ho! Ho! Only juries arrive at verdicts. Supreme courts reach decisions, then affirm, modify or reverse judgments of inferior courts, except in such cases in which they have original jurisdiction; utilize juries at no stage in their procedure and at no time "hand down verdicts." IRVING HILL Editor...
...TIME (March 21) contains a statement relative to efforts of Johns-Manville's Brown to clarify his company's financial statements, resulting in what TIME calls a "notable simplification of a balance sheet." [In his statement, Mr. Brown points out that the balance sheet is the statement of "what we own, what we owe and what we are worth...
...reflected in market prices, the company is "worth" $69,375,000. ... To put the matter another way, according to Mr. Brown's exposition each share of common stock was "worth" on December 31, 1936, about $31. Yet Mr. Brown's report points out that the company in March 1937 was able to sell 100,000 shares of its common stock at $100 per share. Let Mr. Brown explain how he was able to sell stock which he says was "worth" $31 per share for a consideration of $100 per share...
Usually accurate, TIME errs in its March 28 issue in referring to Mr. Justice Branson [the London judge who decided against Bette Davis in her contract difficulties with Warner Brothers] as "His Honor." English usage confers this title on a County Court Judge, the correct reference to a Supreme Court Justice being "His Lordship...
...deeply moved by the letter of Brother Henry Eliot [TIME, March 21] concerning the latest literary effort of Tired Tom the family poet-albeit surprised that he did not write in his native Sanskrit. For that I praise his adaptiveness...