Word: stockings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arbor, Mich., May 22-25, 36th annual event under the auspices of the University of Michigan; programs furnished by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock. Soloists include Sophie Braslau, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli, Edith Mason, Lawrence Tibbett, Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann. Evanston, III., May 27-June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark...
...sudden rise to publicity of Victim and Victor caught the book trade unaware. Clerks went scurrying around looking under counters to see if they had any in stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...
...Lehigh Valley roads - are prominent in the present rail-merger performance. Headliners of this program are the Two Van Sweringens, Oris Paxton and Mantis James. To the Interstate Commerce Commis sion came last week a somewhat peculiar request. Briefly, the petitioner - Nickel Plate R. R. - asked permission to acquire stock control of the Wheeling & Lake Erie road. Oddity of the request lay in the fact that last month the I. C. C. ordered the Nickel Plate to dispose of all its holdings in Wheeling & Lake Erie. This order has not been rescinded, but the Van Swer-ingens (Nickel Plate owners...
...Nickel Plate argument runs somewhat as follows: The I. C. C. order told Nickel Plate, New York Central and Baltimore & Ohio to dispose of their Wheeling stock. The New York Central and the B. & O. anticipated this order by transferring their stock to Allegheny Corp., Van Sweringen holding company. Objection might be taken to joint control of the Wheeling by three roads, but its control by one road is quite another matter...
...ancient truth that one horse can run faster than another. But between chills, thrills, the U. S. representatives had also won a complete, a memorable, a monumental victory. For last week Sir Hugo Hirst, British G. E.'s Managing Director, announced that his company's "British Only" stock issue had been unconditionally withdrawn. Thus the principle of financial internationalism was thoroughly vindicated; thus the U. S. financier can send his dollars across the ocean, confident that they will meet with at least a civil reception...