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Said the Governor: "Let me advise you. I remember in the grand days of my friend Roosevelt, of glorious memory, one Francis J. Heney who was capable of investigating anything and who never investigated in vain. You should employ this Heney...
Meanwhile, the Queen is reported to be giving away American Red Cross supplies as personal gifts from her royal self, and American firms (notably the Baldwin Locomotive and the International Harvester) are pleading in vain for payments of accounts rendered...
...Leland's statement cites the many times he has tried in vain to see Mr. Ford to straighten out the tangle, and flatly declares that the latter has openly refused to fulfil his part of the agreement. This attitude on Mr. Ford's part is attributed by Col. Leland to a desire for revenge; in 1902 Henry Ford was dismissed from the Detroit Automobile Co., in which Col. Leland, a pioneer in the industry, was a prominent factor. Leland disclaims any part in Ford's dismissal, but he states that Ford had declared, "I wouldn...
...yesterday insurance men were endeavoring to discover the cause of the fire, but in vain. They found that the damage was such that a complete new roof will have to be built. The Department of Economics has been temporarily obliged to use other offices and the 47 Workshop to hold their rehearsals elsewhere...
Lovely Rita lives in a Manhattan mansion with her vain, affected mother, possessor of a "shrill falsetto which carried well in restaurant and at the opera," and her father, whom she adores. When the story opens, her father, caught on the short side in Wall Street, is faced with financial calamity...