Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Public sentiment inclines not to favour capital punishment but I have done things highly unpopular with the public before, and I think that is one reason for my appointment as District Attorney," Reading continued...
...Philadelphia Civic Opera Company does little boasting and yet it attracts attention by reason of achievement. To be sure it is not a large organization and its support comes from public funds; its singers are not of international reputation and the players in the pit are borrowed from the Philadelphia Orchestra. But it has Alexander Smallens for conductor, W. Attmore Robinson for artistic director, men who have refused to be bound by a Verdi-Puccini repertoire. Last year they gave the U. S. premieres of De Falla's El Amor Brujo, of Erich Korngold's Der Ring des Polykrates...
...shares; Sears, Roebuck more than 72,000 shares. Deals in Radio Corporation of America alone exceeded theirs that day. The same day in Chicago their sales together accounted for nearly 45% of the Chicago exchange's trans- actions-Sears, Roebuck 32,500, Montgomery Ward 14,000. Reasons: Sears, Roebuck expects to do at least $290,000,000 business this year, Montgomery Ward $200,000,000. A corollary reason in Sears, Roebuck's case: During the week its President Charles Morgan Kittle announced that the firm would build a $5,000,000 mail order house and retail store...
...Federal Radio Commission last week decided to eliminate about 300 of the 694 radio broadcasting stations in the U. S. Reason: to clear the air "in public interest." Those will remain who can convince the commission that public convenience, interest or necessity needs them. Last year about 250 new stations opened...
Then they meet the real owner of the ship, Lord Furber of Author Bennett's beloved "Five Towns," rich beyond reason. Count Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber...