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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Written in 1871 by Count Leo Nikolaievich Tolstoy...
...rather backhanded way. It grouped astrologers with other fortune-tellers under the definition: "one who pretends to a knowledge of futurity and foretells the events of one's life," and said that the old Ohio law prohibiting these practices without licenses is still valid. The decision was written by bearded Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall and supported by four of the remaining six justices including famed benchwoman Mrs. Florence E. Allen...
...eminently readable guide book to astrology. Evangeline Adams has also written The Bowl of Heaven, largely autobiographical. Both are published by Dodd, Mead...
President Loomis, with Mr. Stotesbury and the much older George Fisher Baker, had written letters to stockholders asking voting proxies against Mr. Loree's possible control of the road. The New York Central, the First National Bank of Manhattan and J. P. Morgan & Co. were of course their backlogs. But even that array assured no victory. Mr. Loree's men had made house-to-house solicitations among stockholders...
...well-written play, developing some exceedingly amusing situations. It is an old comedy, brought up to date by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes; but the fact that it happens to deal with gambling on a gold mine in the New York Stock Exchange and that the word "piker" seems to form a rather insufficent basis for its being advertised as "American...