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...lush Glen Cove, L. I. are seven Pratt houses-four occupied by Brothers Herbert, Charles, Harold and Frederic, another by the widow of Brother John, onetime Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt. In the centre of their communal estate are their stables and dairy barns, an institutional layout manned by numberless grooms and milkmen. As many as 100 big & little Pratts and their in-laws assemble for annual Christmas family reunions...
...only would a member of such a committee inform students what a department demands, but also answer questions about specific courses. This would be an inestimable benefit, particularly to those seeking sound advice about courses for distribution. Well-informed committees would reform the present intolerable situation wherein numberless students are misfits in departments and in courses...
Meantime the Federal Government got busy, put 14 Government auditors on the books and records of the Insull companies hunting for crime, had photostatic copies made of numberless letters, envelops and documents. In February 1933, after five months' work, the U. S. got an indictment against Samuel Insull et al. The "al." included Sam Jr., Martin and 16 of their associates and friends. The charge was using the mails to defraud; that is, selling the securities of Corporation Securities Co. through the mails as "a good safe and sound investment," whereas they knew the securities were not as represented...
...flat on top, evidently shaved off by Pleistocene glaciers. Mr. Glasgow ascribed it to the Silurian period-400,000,000 years ago. At that time the U. S. Midwest was covered by a broad bay of the ocean reaching up from what is now Central America, as numberless marine fossils found in the region testify. Lake Michigan's coral is the farthest north ever found...
...delectation. As Chicagoans the Century of Progress represents one of our closest interests, and this is true not of our family alone but of most of our circle here and elsewhere. Week after week we have been disappointed to find no mention to speak of, no summary of the numberless events happening in that important area-not to mention the effect the Fair is undoubtedly having on business and the world in general. Why, may we ask, is the Century of Progress left out of your horizon? This is an interesting question, as one knows of course that...