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Variable weather conditions, clinging snow and ice, and a kerosene fire have delayed the work on the Wigglesworth dormitories considerably in the last three weeks to such an extent that Walter Bates, the contractor will not open the McKean Gate to the Yard before April 1, passage through the other gates to follow after. He stated yesterday that he would be sure to open a gate at that time, although the work about the McKean Gate is less advanced than any other in the project...
...kangaroo was scarcely more Australian than Melba herself. In Australia she grew up as Nellie Porter Mitchell, daughter of a rigid Scottish contractor who thwarted all her early efforts to make music a profession. He relented after her unfortunate marriage to Charles Nesbitt Armstrong, manager of a sugar plantation in the Queensland Bush, whom she left two months after the birth of her son George. She left her son, too, although she continued to provide for him. When he was 23 their reconciliation took place in Kansas City, and in recent years she had displayed great pride in grandmothering...
...plan was offered by Samuel P. Rosoff, wealthy subway contractor. It was drawn up by the legal firm of Satterlee & Canfield. Herbert Livingston Satterlee is a brother-in-law of J. P. Morgan. The member of the firm who drew the plan was David M. Milton, son-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Neither the young Jewish banker who brought the Bank of U. S. to glory and destruction, nor his methods were ever given much countenance by the higher financial community. If the proposed reorganization is carried out, the bank will pass apparently into another circle of financial...
...Democratic ticket, in 1920 the Republican party promised that it would bring to trial all Wartime grafters. No sooner had the Ohio Gang settled in Washington than its leader, Attorney General Harry Micajah Daugherty, began handing out indictments right & left. One of his victims was Benedict Crowell, potent Cleveland contractor and mining engineer, onetime (1917-20) Assistant Secretary of War, Wartime director of munitions. In 1922 he was accused of fraud in connection with cantonment construction and military supplies. The court considered his indictment a political move, threw it out. But not until last week was Mr. Crowell completely vindicated...
...yellow plumes of spurted oil only a few minutes at a time; the work progressed slowly. Only after a three-day struggle did they screw their giant nipple into place and throttle nature's deluge. Leading the labor was the well's owner, Fred Morgan, a drilling contractor whose first private enterprise this well was. He, a poor man. had congratulated himself on great riches during the well's first eight inches. But during the week he lost a fortune in wasted oil and was faced with heavy damage suits from many an ousted inhabitant...