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...copies, is still in demand. Author Green's favorite plot ingredients: the murderer is the first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero was a master mind named Ebenezer Gryce. Called the world's foremost detective story writer by Stanley Baldwin, Miss Green was a friend of such addicts as Presidents Roosevelt I and Wilson, Lord Bryce. William Maxwell Evarts. Other...
Typical of Hartford management was the company's practical progressiveness, its stanch independence. Hartford Electric was the first U. S. utility to use high-voltage transmission, first to use aluminum lines, first to install a steam turbine, first to use that marvel of efficiency, the mercury turbine. But the spirit of innovation never pushed its way into the treasurer's office. Not only is Hartford Electric completely free of a holding company; its capitalization is the simplest conceivable-840,000 shares of common stock and not a dollar of bonded debt...
When the Civil War came, Congress spent $500.000 to garrison Fort Jefferson with 500 troops, more than 100 guns. For four years it stood stanch against the chance that the Confederacy might somehow build a strong navy or conclude an alliance with a potent naval power. Meantime time it served as a Federal penitentiary. At one time its shark-filled moat encircled more than 1,000 prisoners. In July 1865 it received, with a sentence of life imprisonment, Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd of Maryland...
...been looking for another vote-getter as good as "Hang the Kaiser." Last week Oldster Lloyd George, now 72 and leader of a Liberal party of four M.P.'s,† decided that what Britons want today is "The New Deal." In a rousing speech at Bangor, where stanch Welsh neighbors can always be counted on to roar approval, Orator Lloyd George proposed to apply to Britain substantially the Roosevelt remedies (including a budget unbalanced by colossal public works) and appealed for support from all parties...
...years ago these orders for social planning given at the White House would have produced a storm of criticism. Last week they produced nothing of the kind. Not only did General Electric's Gerard Swope speak up in approval but that stanch mouthpiece of conservative Republicanism, Ogden Mills, came out roundly next day in favor of unemployment reserves. In principle nearly all the great industrialists of the U. S. today favor the idea. Some have their fingers crossed about the form such plans may take, but all know how badly industry needs workers' purchasing power in times...