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...obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market. But Mr. Boylan had one ace left. If the court would not let him suspend Rosenbaum Grain, at least he could prevent the company from buying & selling grain, by closing the Exchange, which...
Loew's State: "Reckless...
...Newark, N. J., for having been hit by an automobile when the traffic lights changed as she was crossing a street, Mrs. Michael May sued the City of Newark for . $5,000 for operating traffic lights "in a reckless, haphazard and improper manner...
...into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate to the Howlands' onetime gardener, who has bettered himself financially by bootlegging. The last women seen...
...Montgomery, Ala., stopped by Patrolman William Collins for speeding his banana truck and for reckless driving, Truckdriver R. L. Hathaway gave as his excuse that he had a tarantula in his pants. The policeman slit open the trousers of R. L. Hathaway, flicked out the tarantula, blackjacked...