Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worth...
...District Court at Fort Worth, Tex. last fortnight, Florist Lester Harrison and his wife traced heavy steps. In a petition offered to Judge Frank P. Culver Jr. they set forth that their son Robert, 22, contributed nothing to the family living, would not get out of the house. They asked for and got a temporary injunction forbidding Son Robert entrance to their home. Said Mrs. Harrison: "I'm sorry it had to happen, but under the circumstances it was the least painful thing to do. It was simply a case of a child ruling his parents...
...months over $11,000,000,000 worth of U. S. utilitarians only glared whenever the Securities & Exchange Commission made its stock appeal to their better selves-that by hushing their high-priced lawyers and registering under the Public Utility Act they could take advantage of the easy money market. Last month SEC's old argument gained new point with Judge Mack's decision in the Electric Bond & Share case (TIME, Feb. 8), which enabled a utility to register with SEC without thereby admitting the constitutionality of the Act's more dreaded provisions. Not slow to underscore this...
...State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start was a difference of opinion so bitter that the latter witness said sincerely "I am ashamed to my feet" at the sincere arguments...
...Fort Worth establishment will be a copy of the successful Federal narcotic farm opened at Lexington, Ky. nearly two years ago, except for a difference in the patients. Lexington is primarily for Federal prisoners who are addicts. Fort Worth is to be primarily for voluntary patients. Volunteers will be obliged to present certificates from their private doctors that they want to take the cure. They must sign an agreement that they will remain in the hospital until discharged. If they can afford it, they must pay $1 a day for board, room, and doctoring. Two years' experience at Lexington...