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...Judge Merrill E. Otis ruled in his Kansas City, Mo. court that Ukiah Grape Products Co.. although its juices were unfermented when sold to a customer, incriminated itself in fact because its agents not only assured purchasers that "the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine." but went around to the customer's house to "service" or bottle the inevitably intoxicating after-product. Judge Otis went backward from result to cause to prove intent...
...colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded in raising a $20,000,000 loan in the U. S., sold $9,000,000 in Norddeutscher Lloyd shares. By the time of his death, Dr. Stimming had accumulated 942,162 tons of ships, restored the pre-War service of one express liner and one cabin ship a week between New York and Germany, built the S. S. Columbus, Bremen and Europa, fastest liner afloat. Pudgy, shaven-polled, Herr Direktor Stimming was loved & feared by his employes. He traveled always across the Atlantic on ships of competing lines so that...
Torgsin Stores (state-owned) were established two years ago, have grown phenomenally in numbers. They sell better goods than other Russian stores at lower prices-but there is a catch. Torgsin sells only for "valuta," a pre-War Russian word meaning "foreign money." Thus no Russian can buy at Torgsin except by offering dollars, francs, marks, pounds, yen, etc., etc. Also no Russian is permitted to exchange rubles into valuta (except by special Government permit, rarely given). In effect Torgsin stores are baited traps to catch the valuta of tourists, foreigners employed in Russia and emigres. The State desperately needs...
...Moscow last week Torgsin's smart Sklar scored yet another coup. The State Bank had been wondering what to do about Lawyer Charles Recht who recently arrived in Russia representing New York Life Insurance Co. Lawyer Recht had come about the 21,000 pre-War Russian policy holders to whom his company owes some $3,000,000. He wanted to pay the money at once in dollars...
Election deposits of ?150 each (forfeit if the candidate receives less than ^ of the votes in his division) were made by 1,286 candidates; by James Ramsay MacDonald in extraordinary fashion. Proffering three 20,000 mark pre-War German banknotes, the Prime Minister called out loudly: "Each of these notes was once worth a thousand pounds-one thousand pounds! Will you take them all as my deposit...