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...Waltz, a short-lived, Graustark-under-a-dictator romance, it was still in the spirit of loving the sunshine. Critics Atkinson and Watts, wrote Columnist Roosevelt, "seemed to infer that because this play does not teach a great lesson or pick any particular people to pieces, it is worthless as a play...
...founded, the government will lose an empire. Meanwhile, other Navy and War Department officials pointed out that the only warship ever sunk by planes was the Pantry, whose limited artillery prevented it from being a satisfactory experimental guinea pig; that if England, Italy and Japan knew battleships were worthless, they would not be building them as fast as possible...
...much good as possible to his fellow men and to accept no return therefor is the magnificent obsession of Dr. Manley Hudson. On rich, young handsome, and worthless Robert Merrick this philosophy of life makes little impression; but when he unwittingly becomes responsible for the death of the famous surgeon and the total blindness of his pretty young wife, Merrick decides for their sake to give the philosophy a trial...
...control and the Erie with much less fixed charges." This would seem a singularly hazardous C. & O. gamble, for only last month an ICC examiner reported on an insolvent line (Chicago & Eastern Illinois) in which C. & O. has an $8.000.000 interest. He held that C. & E. I. stock was worthless; the ICC might do the same for Erie in like circumstances...
...question either way given time, as it did in overthrowing New York State's minimum wage law and then upholding a similar one passed in Washington. His parable: Suppose that an old statute taxed horses at $10 a head and ducks at 10? that in time horses became worthless and ducks valuable. At this point legal scholars would redefine the duck, would inevitably rule that "Thomas Jefferson once remarked to his wife that his horses were worth much more than his ducks. Differences between feathers and hair were never mentioned by any of the founders. Therefore, it is apparent...