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Ever since the War, the Govern-ment has been desiring to avoid this loss. But the Government has been prevented from disposing of its fleet to private owners because of its insistence on two things-a good price for its ships (or at least a fair price) and a U. S. merchant service to all the more important parts of the world, a thing which means maintaining a number of unprofitable lines...
Futile efforts to secure subsidies for private operators, so that they would buy ships, have practically been given up. So the question has resolved itself into how the Govern-ment can operate its vessels at a minimum loss...
...judges have become widely known because of the part they had in any given trial. Sir George Jeffreys, Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench, "whose yell of fury sounded like the thunder of the Judg ment Day," after presiding (1685) at a series of trials known to history as the "bloody assizes," gained what Macaulay has described as "an unenviable immortality." (Macaulay's History of England, chapter IV.) Kenesaw Mountain Landis, tsar of professional baseball, became a national character when, as U. S. District Judge, Northern District of Illinois, he tried (1907) the Standard...
...corn belt will be particularly good this year. But among others, bond salesmen are beginning to be interested too. The farmer has had a severe lesson in personal extravagance, and gambling in land and oil stocks. Some bond and mortgage houses predict that the farmer will purchase sound invest ment securities in unusual amounts during the coming months...
...gasps were heard, tongues wagged long and loud. Such prowess in a comparative novice was unheard of. In the final, against seasoned Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, of Philadelphia, twice before champion (1909-10), Miss Browne "cracked." On a soggy course, she sliced with her brassie, lopped her irons. Tourna ment nerve had pulled her through thus far, but Mrs. Hurd had tourna ment nerve, too,* and a sounder game than the tennis apostate had had time to develop. Mrs. Hurd romped off 7-and-6 with the title. Even so, Miss Browne's glory was inviolate. Edith Cummings...