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...turning back history to 1929, Judge Weinfeld set off some 1929-style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...
Last week the Army Times, an unofficial service weekly, immediately set up a raucous shout from its own street corner. Said the Times: Miss Higgins had tied a 15-in. column "of nothing to a nubbin of something that may or may not have happened and cabled it off at press rates just in time to catch the first whisky sour at the Carlton bar . .. We spent a month recently in Frankfurt and other parts of Germany. We must confess that not once did we hear a soldier shout 'Kommen Sie her'. . . Yet Miss Higgins, pausing briefly...
...Army Times apparently. For its caterwauling at hard-working Correspondent Higgins seemed to be tied to a nubbin of nothing...
...Series. Everything, in fact, is going fine until his roommate and catcher (Paul Douglas) starts using the precious solution as a hair tonic. This leads to some minor plot complications and further belaboring of the film's one gag, which has already been worn down to a small nubbin...
...nubbin of this situation is really easy to understand if we approach it from a different slant...