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...great manufacturing name -Vick Chemical, Sterling Products (Bayer's Aspirin, Phillips Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria), Life Savers, Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Rubberset brushes, Ipana). But the vital retail end limped almost from the start. Long-term leases put Liggett into bankruptcy in March 1933. Thereupon the big manufacturers, long restless and dissatisfied, un-merged the combine and each went its own way. Enough United stock remained in manufacturing hands, however, to give them a finger in United affairs...
...minerally rich Union of South Africa, only 800 miles away. Last week Prime Minister Smuts heard that Pierre Laval's rise to power in Vichy had been followed by a reign of terror in Madagascar, in which hundreds of Free French sympathizers were arrested. Prime Minister Smuts thereupon broke relations with Vichy, saying ''we do not cease to cherish a firm faith in the resurrection of France." It was rumored that South African troops would soon be sent to take Madagascar for the United Nations...
Frank Hackett thereupon decided to start a school in a wholesome atmosphere. By having his pupils commute, instead of keeping them as boarders, he proposed to combine the advantages of country school life and "the steadying influences of a good home." Encouraged by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler, Hackett sank his capital, $500, into a quarter's rent on an old Riverdale house, where he opened his school in the fall of 1907 with twelve students. He canvassed apartment houses for pupils and was one of the first headmasters to use display advertisements...
...will permit me to present [my reply] in person. . . . Can be in Washington Friday morning. . . . Would thank you to let me know time to be at your office." The President sent an ultimatum. George McNear sent back a 77-page collect telegram, refusing to arbitrate. The President thereupon seized the railroad, cracked an important transportation bottleneck around Chicago...
...Thereupon the schools addressed themselves to problems of living and working. To their students this meant learning how to study, to choose and get a job, to get along with one's family, to solve the problems of sex, marriage, food, clothes, houses, government, "the meaning of life...