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...Surrogate James A. Foley's gavel. He indignantly dismissed the Morris claim as "false and a forgery." Promptly the District Attorney had Claimant Morris jailed in default of $10,000 bail as a material witness for the Grand Jury. Claimant Morris, no intellectual giant, seemed dazed at this upshot, mumbled: "Now I don't know whether I'm John's son or not. But I wouldn't go through those court hearings again if I was positive." His public, doubting him shrewd enough to have concocted his case, waited to see what manner of rascal...
...white chevronings of Bavaria, caged ! parrots, romping children, elephants, a performing bear and good pastry. Still ; bent on their new amorous guests, the ! playwright tries to sing "One More Dance" to bewildered Sieglinde while his mistress out-howls him with "Night Flies By." for the benefit of timid Karl. Upshot of this sequence: The playwright puts Sieglinde in his new play, the mistress carries Karl off to Berlin. With much sympathy and good humor, Messrs Hammerstein & Kern unravel their amatory knots to everyone's satisfaction, send their audience home with a sense of benign gratification. Best tunes: naive...
While Mr. Mills was speaking there was assembling in Chicago, at the President's order, a meeting on farm mortgages attended by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde, two R. F. C. directors and many an insurance man and joint stock land bank official. Upshot of much talk was that all hands would be as lenient as possible on farm foreclosures, that R. F. C. would be a liberal lender to private institutions which refrain from putting the screws on the "honest farmer who tries to pay his debts...
...Upshot of the meeting was the adoption of a set of resolutions calling upon the Federal Government to: 1) amend the Reconstruction Finance Corp. act so as to allow indigent municipalities to borrow from that agency; 2) authorize a five-billion-dollar bond issue for public works (William Randolph Hearst's "Prosperity Loan"). For two years the Washington Government has insisted that local governments carry their own distress problems. Last week's meeting was local government's first organized appeal from this policy...
Board of Trade to Arms. Last week Farmers National Grain Corp., subsidiary of the Federal Farm Board, had no trading privileges on the Chicago Board of Trade. This situation came about as an upshot of the long and bitter feud between...