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...Philadelphia one day last week an animal-lover spied a small, black mongrel dog adrift on an ice cake in the Delaware River. He did not know how the dog had come there, but he knew how to get it off. That was what Philadelphia's Harbor Patrol was for. Four miles downstream the police boat Blankenburg, with 17 patrolmen aboard, put out to the rescue. An hour's churning through the ice-choked river brought it abreast of the derelict. Glowing with humane sentiments, Patrolman Edward Corliss crawled out on the ice. The dog snapped and snarled...
Twenty-three years ago a young Norfolk lawyer received a letter from a member of the Virginia Corporation Commission : "I have carefully considered your application for a charter for your hybrid and mongrel banking institution. Frankly, I don't know what it is. It isn't a savings bank; it isn't a state or national bank; it isn't a charity. It isn't anything I ever heard of before. Its principles seem sound, however, and its purposes admirable. But the reason that I am going to grant a charter is because I believe...
Other people believed in Arthur Joseph Morris and the "hybrid and mongrel" notion of banking became the Morris Plan banks in 150 U. S. cities. Founded on a desire to provide the laboring man with a better source of credit than the fleecing loan shark, the Morris Plan is today dignified by the name "industrial banking." Morris Plan Banks ("companies" in some states where only an orthodox bank may use the word) make loans of $50 to $5,000 largely on character, earning power and two indorsements - a type of business which many commercial banks find un profitable. Some...
...shambles of blood, feathers, mangled turkeys and broken glass. At first attendants thought there must be 300 turkeys lying with tooth-marked backs and broken necks. A count cut their estimate to 153. No one had seen the marauders, but it took no Pinkerton man to deduce their identity. Mongrel German police dogs from nearby farms, running singly or in pairs, had been making sheep and poultry raids in the neighborhood. Reconstructing the scene, Ashgrove employes saw the dogs burrowing under the field's six-foot wire fence, descending on the helpless turkeys, tossing them through windows in frenzied...
...this strangely enduring sentimental comedy, revive the role which Laurette Taylor originated in 1912. The play deals, as everyone knows, with an old Irish fisherman, the antithesis of the savage angler in I Cover the Waterfront (see above), and his daughter who inherits ?2,000,000. With her small mongrel Michael, she goes to England to live in a manor house where she squabbles with the butler, falls in love with a young solicitor, is informed that her father is dead. By the time this report is exploded, she has learned enough about the depraved habits of the aristocracy...