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...experts and found to contain no marble of commercial value, that Directors Harcourt Morgan & Lilienthal nevertheless tried to have a conciliator to decide the value of the Berry claims; that not until evidence of bad faith by Berry & Partners was unearthed during condemnation proceedings were the claims finally declared worthless and the Government saved from a "bare-faced" steal...
Since Mathematics 2 is required for all concentrators, it was felt that one section at least should emphasize problems and practical work, (Huntington is a good engineer) so that the course may be of some use in later engineering courses. Some sections now are almost worthless from an engineering standpoint. Closer cooperation between the Engineering Sciences and Mathematics departments should solve this difficulty...
...Between May 19 and the end of the year he got a succession of bank loans-$50,000 from the Corn Exchange Bank, $75,000 from the Marine Midland, $75,000 from the National City, $100,000 from the Continental Bank & Trust, $80,000 from Public National-all against worthless stock in defunct companies. Apparently the Whitney front was so impressive that even these hard-boiled Manhattan banks never checked up on him at all. These loans he managed to repay...
...Political Science Quarterly for June, 1936, Dr. Megaro had previously attacked as falsified and worthless a nine-volume collection of Mussolini's complete works, printed officially in Milan in 1936 and since translated into French, German, and Spanish...
There is a good deal of aimless wandering about by an earnest daughter, pursued by both worthless playboy and promising young lawyer; by a crackpot son who gets sucked into the Communist maelstrom and tossed out again; and by a chivalrous judge who fell in love with Mrs. Thomas a long time ago without ever meeting her. Out of this not very diverting hodgepodge, for a while there promises to come to the fore a rankly sentimental attachment between the madame and her devoted, long suffering butler. But just as she vows not to marry again but to open...