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...tariff, railroad laws, farm credits, are 'due for consideration this session, and the domestic legislation which will be forthcoming should exert an unusually important influence on the course of business for coming years. For 1924 is a Presidential year, when political timidity is at its height, and when unsound and even publicly dangerous legislation can on occasion be jammed by force upon the statute books...
Anyhow, in these rather terrifying surroundings, the will is read, and nobody has the slightest luck except Miss Annabel West, to whom everything falls unless she chances to be of unsound mind. Apparently she isn't, but how she comes through the rest of the play with all her mental equipment intact is the greatest mystery...
...went to Boston, to work in his uncle's shoe store, he got the job only on the condition that he attend a Congregational Church and Sunday school. Even after a year's attendance he was refused admission into this Church because his theology was judged unsound , but later th deacons admitted "the shoe clerk." In 1856 Moody went to Chicago, and became a great success as a traveling shoe salesman. He accumulated $7,000 of the $100,000 on which he had set his heart. Not forgetting his religion, however, he first taught Sunday school, then became...
Later he went to a vaudeville theatre. He behaved no better. At the Legation doctors pronounced him mentally unsound...
...Moore of his charges that Edward L. Doheny was lying about his company, the Mexican Petroleum Company. Back in 1921, when the price of "Mex Pete" was fluctuating widely on rumors regarding the oil situation in Mexico, Moore, in his "market letters," insinuated that the Company was unsound and being misrepresented by its officers...