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...retired from the presidency of Manhattan's Harriman National Bank by "promotion" to chairman. In March 1933 the Harriman bank failed to open after the banking holiday and Banker Harriman, arrested on the charge of having falsified his bank's books, was arraigned in court on a stretcher. In May 1933, Banker Harriman, having escaped from a sanitarium to suburban Long Island, futilely pinked his bosom with a butcher knife. Last week Banker Harriman, wearing a grey suit and a Panama hat, walked into court to stand trial...
...Treasury intended to hold the members of the Clearing House to their moral obligation. No Harriman came forward like the Cones to rescue depositors: on the day of Mr. Woodin's announcement, Joseph Wright Harriman, ex-chairman of the bank, was arraigned in court (carried in on a stretcher, wearing a derby hat) for making false entries on the bank's books...
...Awkward on the field, he was smart and nervy enough to become one of the best players of his time. He was almost uncatchable on the bases, became celebrated in the song ''Slide. Kelly, Slide." In a Boston hospital, fatally ill of pneumonia, he slipped off a stretcher. Cried Kelly: "This is my last slide." Said Mrs. John Masefield, in New York, of her crossing aboard the S. S. Mauretania with her famed husband. Poet Laureate of England and of the sea: "It was too uppy-downy, and Mr. Masefield was ill." Poet Masefield's preventive...
...resuscitation in cases where the lungs stop working, Dr. Frank Cecil Eve of Hull, England, is recommending a marvelously simple method which he recently devised. He straps the patient on a stretcher, places the stretcher on a trestle, rhythmically teeters the stretcher up & down. The weight of the patient's viscera alternately pushes the diaphragm up & down, forces air in & out the lungs. Dr. Eve, who is consulting physician to the Royal Infirmary at Hull, 'finds this teeterboard respirator effective in acute diseases; it relieves the patient from any breathing effort. For infants a rocking chair serves just...
...carries with him up to and through the gates of perdition. Miss Le Gallienne, as the servant girl whom he lives with, beats and foolishly dies for, gives an eagerly suppressed impersonation. To hear her haltingly read the Sermon on the Mount while Liliom lies dead on the police stretcher is easily worth the Repertory's $1.65 top admission price. The theatre's repertoire for the first two weeks includes Liliom and three old favorites: Camille, Peter Pan, The Three Sisters...