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...Story. In 1979 a chap with a scar was traveling to England, there to sell to the highest bidder priceless mineral deposits of his native West Irania. In the same year, another chap, without a scar, was traveling to England, there to see the world. Of Chap I the name was whatever happened to be convenient; of Chap II the name was Richard Mallard?he having no reason to conceal his identity...
...Chicago Tribune, loud and bold though it is, never sent any such telegram. Neither did loud, bold Publisher William Randolph Hearst, though he was last fortnight reported as the successful bidder for Coolidge manuscripts after March 4, for the Cosmopolitan...
...United Press reported that William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan was the successful bidder for Coolidge manuscripts after March...
Behind its failure is a story of petty Louisiana politics. Each bidder for the bridge franchise secured the services of a former Governor as counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long...
Last August the Shipping Board put on the auction block its two best Atlantic properties-the U. S. Lines and the American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...