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...Charles, Mo. court last week, Union Electric Co. of Mo. (a subsidiary of North American Co.) was found guilty of trying to buy the election of candidates opposed to a municipal power plant-one of the uses to which it put a $580,000 political slush fund discovered by SEC two years ago. The penalty: a $175,000 fine, with the company's charter to be forfeited if it ever tinkers with politics again...
Among geographers, historians, and men of letters, Iceland has not fared well. Pliny barely admitted the place was anything more than a myth. An anonymous 10th-Century English poet called it "a gallows of slush." Hakluyt said: "To speak of Iceland is little need; save of stockfish." Shakespeare thought of the Icelander as a "prick-eared cur." Socially conscious Poet Hugh Wystan Auden, visiting in 1936 and 1937, wrote: "There's handsome scenery but little agricultural machinery...
...team severely; it took the best jumper, Dick Whittemore, and a couple of cross-countrymen. The main need now is for a good jumping specialist. A week spent during the past vacation at Stowe and Hanover has served pretty well to show who the standouts are. Although conditions were slush and ice most of the time, the four events were pretty well covered in practice each...
...Caution", the B plus show, is a two fisted, two-gunned, two-sabered story of American shipping in the war of 1812, a minor American edition of "The Sea Hawk." There are the same devil-take-the-hindmost sea-battles, the same villainous intrigue, but fortunately a little less slush than the Flynn-Marshall combine dished out. Victor Mature, the anthropoid from "One Million B. C." and Bruce Cabot spend most of the picture fighting like mad over a little minx named Losise Platt. Opinions differ as to whether Miss Platt is worth fighting over, but she can certainly...
...secret investigation, and Sam Shelton began a series of exclusive stories that kept P-D readers in a state of mixed rage and amusement. From testimony in trials that resulted it appeared that: In eight years Union Electric's Lobbyist Albert Laun and his friends had developed a slush fund of at least $525,000 which never appeared on Union Electric's books. One company lawyer had kicked back $111,000 in excess fees; another $42,000; a Kansas City equipment salesman had kicked back $70,000; insurance companies had refunded $80,000. This money then went into...