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After a few years the Terrible Buzzards broke up. A few of them even married and settled down. But not Abe, not Joe. In 1893 Abe persuaded Governor Pattison that he was a reformed character and deserved a pardon. Thereupon, he went piously from town to town preaching sermons on "Ruin and Reform." Very soon, when he was arrested again for stealing chickens, the county constables found a pistol and burglar's tools in his bag along with his Bible and hymn book. From then on he was never out of jail for very long at a time...
...most tortured country in the U. S. and there were no radio beacons or even lights in those days, Nick Mamer's success convinced the U. S. Post Office that the run was feasible. Northwest Airlines, which had begun flying between Chicago and St. Paul in 1926, thereupon absorbed both Nick Mamer and his route, eventually shoved on to Seattle. By last week Northwest Airlines had flown some 72,000,000 passenger-miles, was one of two U. S. lines which had never killed a passenger.* And Nick Mamer, looked on as "father" of the route, had flown...
...though it agreed to lend $8.000,000 to the Baltimore & Ohio after only a week's thought (TIME, Jan. 10)- it refused to aid the Erie. While some Erie bonds broke as much as 16 points and its common stock fell from $6.25 to $3.25, the Erie thereupon defaulted on $1,849.000 interest due on six bond issues. Unless some drastic remedy could be found in the six-month period of grace provided for in the bonds, * the Erie seemed headed for reorganization under section 77 of the Bankruptcy...
Returning to debate by a vote of four-to-one the convention routed the peasce-at-any-price advocates, revoked its support of the Oxford oath, adopted a belligerent "collective security" program. Thereupon all A. S. U.'s young delegates, having enjoyed themselves hugely marched out of Vassar singing Solidarity Forever...
With Christmas in the offing and the box office in mind, Twentieth Century-Fox decided that a gay musical would be just the thing, and thereupon collected everyone they could lay their hands on and turned them all over to Sidney Lanfield, who happens to be the second highest paid director in the business. Mr. Lanfield's production, "Love and Hisses," now at the Metropolitan, is one of those pictures everyone will like...