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...Vought case is pending in New York. The claim against the Government lay dormant until recently when Claims Com missioner Hayner H. Gordon reopened the case. Should his claim be upheld. Inventor Esnault-Pelterie was reputedly pre pared to demand $2,500,000 royalties from the Government alone, untold sums from commercial builders in future suits...
...protracted dickering over who shall rehabilitate U. S. Lines and complete the process of getting the Government out of the shipping business (TIME, June 29 ct seq.) continued all last week. Chief developments were: 1) a hitherto untold chapter of U. S. shipping history; 2) an apparent shift of advantage between the dickerers, an advantage for President Philip Albright Small Franklin of Roosevelt- International Mercantile Marine Co. over President Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines and his new backers from the Pacific Coast, Robert Stanley Dollar and Kenneth Thomas Dawson...
...Lawyer, banker and retired man of affairs in 1926, he had fought successfully to have the State constitution amended to provide a new method of property classification for taxation. The State Supreme Court ruled the amendment out on technicalities, but the reason for the ruling is a story still untold. When he sold out his Columbus Guarantee Title & Trust Co. in 1926, he went into Continental Shares, then in its infancy. Smoking made-to-order cigars, strolling on his 150-acre estate opposite the Columbus Country Club, showing oft his 20 acres of bent grass lawn, Mr. Gugle must have...
...whether the Harvard plan is consciously British or not, the process of acclimating it to American custom and even to New England hauteur is not without anticipation of untold difficulty. In the matter of the British plan there was no tradition to buck. Oxford and Cambridge have concentrated their athletic relations to dual meets with each-other even since the inception of varsity athletics at the two universities. In the matter of the proposed Harvard plan there would be the necessary break-down of nearly a century of tradition. The Dartmouth and Holy Cross games have become a tradition strongly...
...before he was driven out and forced to flee to Japan (TIME, Sept. 24) by the present Nationalist Govern ment at Nanking. The return of Dastard Chang from Japan at the head of a band of military adventurers (TIME, March 4), and his capture of Chefoo last week bode untold evil to the wretched, famine-stricken people of Shantung. Cowed by the scowling marshal, who chews fat Havana cigars and particularly likes to spit brown in people's faces, they could only groan, "How do the wicked flourish!" Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once...