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...bases near the French border as a "gesture of neutrality" toward France. From, internationally-governed Tangier, Morocco, came reports of anti-Rightist rioting in adjoining Spanish Morocco, resulting in 35 killed, 400 arrested. Meanwhile, the British freighters Bobie and Standlake were badly damaged-they were said to be the 64th and 65th to be bombed -and four British seamen killed by a Rightist air raid on Barcelona's water front. Other casualties: 31 dead, 112 wounded...
Most of the 60,000 racing fans who jammed historic old Churchill Downs last week for the 64th running of the Kentucky Derby looked down their rosy noses at a big, rugged colt from Missouri named Lawrin. In the first place, he was not bred in fashionable Kentucky or Maryland, like the nine other three-year-olds who were parading to the post for the mile-and-a-quarter race. What was more, he was a "winter horse" (one who campaigns at tracks that operate during the winter)- and only one winter horse had ever won the Derby...
Reynolds, who retired as president of the bank last Jan. 1. After spending his 64th birthday in California, where he first met Mrs. Reynolds and played halfback on the powerful Stanford football team of 1894, Banker Reynolds was back making work for himself as a First National director last March. Lately he has been using Mr. Baker's old office on the main floor. Until 1917 a lawyer and professor of law at Columbia (where Franklin Roosevelt attended his lectures), Mr. Reynolds was persuaded to go into banking by the elder George F. Baker, who made him First National...
Sears & Ward- Last week Sears' President Robert E. Wood issued his Golden Jubilee annual report, which made an interesting comparison with the 64th annual report published last fortnight by Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery. Sears showed net sales of $392,000,000, up 23% from the year before. Ward's sales of $293,000,000 were the highest in its history, yet the gain from the previous twelve-month period was only 17%. Sears reported profits of $21,500,000, a 43% increase. On this item Ward did better than Sears, showing a 47% gain from...
...School enrollment for the past session totalled 1,574 with students from 35 states, the District of Columbia, and several foreign countries. Four less students were registered in the previous year, while 1,506 attended in 1933. The oldest summer school in the country. Harvard this year held its 64th annual session...