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Framed on the wall of an office which overlooks an ivy-covered factory in Syracuse. N. Y. is a homely slogan writ large in the hand of the founder-president of H. H. Franklin Manufacturing Co. Last week for the first time in the 33 years that Herbert Henry Franklin has been making air-cooled automobiles, the aging motor pioneer had cause to doubt his slogan. For three years he had doggedly fought off failure. He had cajoled his bankers into renewing and renewing bank loans which were thrice his company's current assets. Reorganization plans had fallen through...
...city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord. The foodstuffs dug up in the ruins of Jericho had remained uneaten because, as Holy Writ reports, the captors spurned such remnants of an "accursed" city...
...riding on a roller coaster in Louisville's amusement park, Editor Armentrout remained in jail long enough to pay the price of 50? rather than "50 licks with a black lash" for joining a prisoners' Kangaroo Court. After one hour his lawyer got him out on a writ of habeas corpus...
While cocky Mr. MacCracken was getting his habeas corpus writ. Col. Brittin, gaunt and bespectacled Spanish-American and World War veteran who had learned to fly at 55, began his prison sentence in the dingy red stone District jail. The warden asked him what he could do. He said he knew clerking...
...Daniel O'Donoghue of the District of Columbia Supreme Court: Mr. MacCracken, Sergeant Jurney, Lawyer Hogan and Lawyer Garnett. The Justice heard the tale, then ruled that: 1) Mr. MacCracken had been not arrested but had been trespassing in Sergeant Jurney's home; 2) The habeas corpus writ should be dismissed; 3) Mr. MacCracken had secured the writ under false pretenses and therefore was guilty of contempt of court and should be fined $100. Further indication that Lawyer Hogan had outsmarted not the Senate, but his own client came when Lawyer Garnett announced he was pondering charging MacCracken...