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...leave St. Louis (after one of his editors shot a prominent citizen) to go to Manhattan and, as things turned out, to buy the World. Frank Munsey was a telegraph operator in Augusta, Me. Edward Wyllis Scripps had started his Penny Press in Cleveland three years earlier; young "Bob" Scripps and Roy Wilson Howard were not born. In Chicago the "World's Greatest Newspaper" (Tribune) astounded its readers by printing in a single issue the entire New Testament, just revised; and the Herald (now Hearst's Herald Examiner) was established. Also in 1881, in the overgrown pueblo village...
This testimony was heard by Federal Judge Knox before whom Bob was being tried for alleged fraud in connection with his Metal & Mining Shares, Inc. Promoter Bob contributed $100,000 to the Byrd South Polar Expedition in 1929 when Metal & Mining common stock was selling for $23. Last week the stock was worth...
...What is his reputation for truth, honesty & character?" was a question asked of Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd about his friend Charles Victor Bob...
...Very good indeed," replied the Admiral who once named a range of South Polar mountains for generous Promoter Bob...
...coach of the Carlisle Indians when the great Thorpe used to tear down the field snorting through his noseguard. Pop's only art in struction came from a village sign painter. Fond also of carpentry, he manufactures all his golf clubs. Said he last week : "Bob Zuppke, they tell me, wears a smock or a duster or something like that, but artist." not for me. I'm a painter...