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...month pensions was small change compared to their proposal of $200 a month. Said Senator Borah: "I am not satisfied to make an outlay of nearly $1,000.000,000 for armaments and $15 for old age." Said Senator Nye: "We are led to the mountain top by the generalized prospectus and rudely dropped by the detailed program...
...Florence Nightingale, this picture makes a sincere effort not only to dramatize but to glorify the profession of nursing. That it fails to do the first may be because Rian James's story, covering the entire training period of a probationary nurse, seems more like a sentimental prospectus than a moving picture. That it fails to do the second may be because pictures like Night Nurse, Life Begins, Registered Nurse have already acquainted the cinema public with the notion that a pretty girl in a nurse's uniform can be counted on to perform superhuman feats of courage...
Aside from the fact that your prospectus of Professor Morison's course in American Colonial History showed an utter ignorance of what it pretended to discuss, the mendacity of the reviewer approached outright maliciousness. If not libelous to the word, the writer's phrasing ill-concealed an uncritical dislike...
...engineer he started writing, proved more prolific, less talented than his father. His novels (Garth, Archibald Malmaison, Dust, David Poindexter's Disappearance), popular in the '90s, are forgotten today. When he was 67 he was sentenced to a year and a day in a Federal penitentiary for writing the prospectus of a worthless gold mine in which the public lost $3,500,000. He was paroled after a few months...
...public offering a $50,000,000 4½% bond issue, maturing in 1984. Proceeds are to be used for "proper corporate purposes." Like all railroad securities the issue was exempt from the Securities Act, though its underwriters were subject to the equally drastic Investment Bankers Code. The prospectus issued by Kuhn, Loeb contained Pennsylvania Railroad's condensed income statement for ten years and a letter from President William Wallace Atterbury reporting that the railroad is not indebted to RFC or the Railroad Credit Corp., has no outstanding bank loans. Kuhn. Loeb purchased the bonds at 95, will offer them...