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...them; the family was equally happy to serve either--or better, both. Today, for example, when political boundary lines throw most of their estates into France, but with a sufficient number of Von Wendels in reserve to manage its German affairs. (Being a De Wendell however, is no necessary barrier to th perquisites and profits still obtainable from the German armament business, as will later appear.) In 1914 the ranking member of the family was Humbert von Wendel a member of the German Reichstag, living at Hayange in Moselle, near the Saar Basin. After the treaty of Versailles he became...
...friends & associates as of old, it looked like old times when the record crowd of 60,000 citizens and notables arrived in full force. Six horses were scratched in the morning and early afternoon, including the Pacific Coast hope, Riskulus. leaving 13 limber-legged thoroughbreds to spring from the barrier as the crowd uttered one vast shrill: "They're off!" Mata Hari, Charles T. Fisher's filly, broke fast and led to the first turn, Sgt. Byrne closing swiftly. Jockey Don Meade went to the outside with Colonel Edward Riley Bradley's filly Bazaar, hot after...
...days of racing week precede the Derby. But the topic which agitated everyone in town from the youngest bell hop at the Brown Hotel to booming President Whitefoord R. Cole of Louisville & Nashville R. R. was: which 20-odd of the 124 Derby eligibles would go to the barrier on Saturday? Which one would for 1¼ mi. run faster than any other, have a horseshoe of roses hung round its neck by the Governor of Kentucky, its name painted beside its 59 predecessors on the pillars of the Churchill Downs pergola, its fame recorded in racing history...
...away, could not be named. Up spoke Harry Sinclair and Joshua S. Cosden, asking for $5,000 worth apiece. Both had Derby eligibles, and although their horses had run last in the Preakness week before the Derby, both delightedly posted the $500 entry fee to send them to the barrier. Mr. Sinclair's Zev came in No. 1, Mr. Cosden's Martingale...
Having made what they consider a heavy contribution to Recovery, toymen are now vastly alarmed by talk of lowering their 70% tariff in possible foreign trade deals. They claim that even the present tariff is no barrier to peasant-made goods. And in defense of high protection, they hammer on the educational value of domestic toys, on U.S. diligence in making toys safe & sanitary. A modern child may safely wolf a pack of crayons, eat the paint off a set of blocks...