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General Umberto Nobile, polar dirigible engineer: "An audience in Davenport, Iowa, demanded money back after hearing me lecture last week, declaring my Italian accent made my English unintelligible. Sued for $1,800, my promoters withheld from...
With Buermeyer lying between life and death in Bellevue Hospital and Carson under $10,000 bail, the Columbia-University authorities, profoundly shocked, withheld decision as to their course of action. "Mr. Carson," said Professor Coss, his department chief, "was a thorough gentleman, a sincere student and an excellent teacher...
...days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...
...concealed from re- porters in New York. Not only had he been assured by his lawyers (Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone) that progress was being made in the reconstruction of his wealth; not only might he go to court to obtain his patrimony, which is withheld because his father, Cornelius III, "has old fashioned ideas about the newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future; but he was. likewise determined, after having built up his California...
...United States Steel Corporation has never cut a melon, although it has more than half a billion dollars in surplus. Many common stockholders yearn for this usufruct of 25 years' waiting which Judge Elbert Henry Gary, chairman of the Board, has placidly withheld. Men had tried to tease the Judge into resigning at the April stockholders meeting. They had urged that he was an old man turned 80, had been with U. S. Steel since its inception in 1901, had made a batch of steel highbinders work together and actually practice his ethics in business. U. S. Steel...