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Last autumn J. Edward Jones publicly implored President Roosevelt to remove Secretary of Interior Ickes from the Oil Administration. President Roosevelt ignored the petition. But J. Edward Jones considered it more than a coincidence that SEC soon began to investigate his business. Upshot was a temporary injunction, which SEC hopes to make permanent as soon as it can prepare its case...
...apparent that John Hertz's heroic efforts had made the Paramount hulk worth raising. The studios were unaffected, theatres were open and by the end of 1933, with the help of Mae West's first hit (She Done Him Wrong), the company was making money. Upshot was that a number of people began to take a hand in the salvage operations...
...upshot of all this, when he gets back to Shanghai, is enough to give pause even to an idealist as confirmed as Stephen Chase. Credit for his lamp has been assigned to one of his superiors. The position which should have been his reward for meritorious service has gone to an incompetent sycophant. A highly improbable transoceanic telephone call, from the president of the company in New York to Stephen's superior in Shanghai, sets things right at the last minute but Director Mervyn LeRoy contrives to make this unnecessary bow to precedent as cynical as possible. Good shot...
...When the conversational medicine ball had been thrown back and forth enough this Sunday morning, we decided to put the question of the price for eating an earthworm to the test. Upshot: a friend of mine (incidentally a Harvard student-perhaps that explains it) totally consumed a fairly good-sized angleworm for the small fee of 25?. We concluded that Dr. Thorndike's price of $100 was a little high. Would he be interested...
...because it makes everyone work harder but he saw no reason for paying 5% for nearly $40,000,000 of borrowed money when he could pay 4%. Moreover, he was planning for his Detroit plant a new wide strip sheet mill, which is an appallingly expensive aggregation of machinery. Upshot was that by December Steelman Weir and his two top executives frequently darkened the Kuhn, Loeb doors. With some inaccuracy, they were called "the three wisemen of Weirton...