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...asked last February. Presumably because he is a member of the potent State Railroad Commission (which controls oil, also settles rail & bus disputes), perhaps because he disliked leaving his two colleagues a free hand, he delayed his decision. Up until last week he had not resigned his Commissionership. But he announced last week he would assume the presidency of Baylor next autumn...
...later eleven of them set upon Burnis Frederick and a companion. Was Burnis Frederick a milk sop? Bang-bang-bang-bang-bang-bang! went his revolver. Down went three of the avengers of Mary Butterfield: Jerry Cebe, captain-elect of the wrestling team, hit in the arm and leg; Bus Love with a wound in his leg; Frank Luckey with a bullet in his abdomen. Law Student Frederick was carried off, beaten badly, thrown from an automobile near the college hospital where he later admitted the kidnapping and shooting. Freed under bond, he pleaded self-defense. Said...
...Harvard delegation will leave Harvard Square by bus on Friday morning, March 4, at 8 o'clock, for Providence. Dr. Albert Mead, Acting President of Brown, and Dean Margaret S. Morriss of Pombroke will welcome the delegates Friday morning will be taken up by a special session of a Model Council, under the direction of D. H. Popper '32, chairman of the French delegation and of the Harvard delegation, to consider the present crisis in Sino-Japanese relations. After a luncheon for the visiting students, Committee meetings will be held on Disarmament, Economic Questions, and the Polish Corridor...
...treatise on the subject, the book takes up all phases of street railways, stressing the economic side of their operation and development. Their history is taken up in detail from the time when they first began to supercede horserace, about 1890, and continues to the present day, when the bus is rapidly taking the place of the trolley as a means of rapid transit. Among the numerous aspects of street railway operation which are taken up may be classed their vise, building, organization, finance, and finally their fall...
...upon the bright idea of selling land on the installment plan, formed African Realty Trust, Ltd., sold suburban sites which later became parts of cities. To get the sites occupied he imported portable houses, opened a mortgage & loan office. To get his tenants to their homes he started a bus line. That paid too. Everything paid. He bought more land, planted it with fruits, sold it, collected from the fruit profits. He opened banks, bought ships, went into every branch of business that looked profitable. He bought theatres, organized his own companies to play in them, now has a monopoly...