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...published an analysis of the outlook that cheered chain store men. "Just as there was a tendency toward an impatient anticipation of future growth, so there is now an almost complete loss of perspective," said Moody's. Descriptive of Moody's opinion on grocery chains were such paragraph headings as: Grocery Stocks no Longer Market Favorites; Long Expansion Broken by Period of Consolidation; Effect of Commodity Price Drop Temporary; Mixed Showing in Six Months Net Statements; Balance of Year May be Better; Anti-Chain Agitation Active; Little Actual Legislation; Chains' Portion of Retail Trade Growing; Chain Store...
Another thing that the public probably did not know until last week was that Ralph S. Kelley, author of the above paragraph, had been for six years chief of the field division of the Department of the Interior's general land office at Denver. The public may hear more of Chief Kelley and the Western Colorado oil fields to which he referred, because last week, in submitting his resignation to Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, he charged that large unnamed oil companies were trying to steal this property from the U. S. Mr. Kelley's letter...
...doing everything he could to strengthen the Anglo-Russian-French entente. He foresaw Germany's menace to England, but even during the War, "he was incensed by the theory . . . that Germany had provoked the War. . . . He was appalled by the Treaty of Versailles. Particularly did he resent the paragraph which obliged Germany by force to admit that she was solely responsible for the War. He considered that paragraph both undignified and meaningless...
...reference to the letter and review [of The No-Nation Girl in TIME, Aug. 11, may I call your attention to two mistakes made in stating the plot? Allow me to quote from the first paragraph of chapter 5. "Cliff Dale could not have been called a northerner." He was purposely created a composite. His mother a "luxury loving daughter of a plantation owner of the traditional grand style." His father was from Pennsylvania. Cliff spent about half of his time in the south with his uncle, thus he was both by inheritance and environment about half and half...
...years an author, a barrister and an educator have run a close race for Longest Paragraph in Who's Who. In 1928 Barrister Samuel Untermyer with his train of legal cases (viz., "successfully carried through the merger of the Utah Copper Co., with the Boston Consolidated and the Nev. Con. Cos., representing a market value of $100,000,000, for which was paid a lawyer's fee of $750,000;") held a narrow lead with 99 lines. Two thin lines behind, bolstered by 29 academic degrees and memberships in 86 associations, boards, clubs, colleges, congresses, leagues, societies, orders, ran Educator...