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People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will...
...jury found Merton Hankins not guilty of assault, evidently because his reputation as a larkster was well established. Two years ago, when the Flatbrook Valley Club refused to let him fish in its privately stocked trout pools, near Newton, N. J., Jokester Hankins opened the dam, let out the water, killed most of the fish. For that he was fined...
...National City Bank. Many a young bank employe has, disgruntled, alleged that banks promote by seniority, that Age outranks Ability. Yet Banker Steffan, vice president of largest U. S. Bank, is but 36. Born in an Ohio village, that since has been wiped out to make room for a dam, Mr. Steffan has progressed far from his high school days in which he originated, as a class motto, the aphorism ''Impossible is Un-American." He would perhaps now be more inclined to remark that leading away from aces is uncivilized, inasmuch as he, a member of the Knickerbocker...
...exports, four billions in imports. Of the imports two and one-half billions come in duty free, one and one-half pay tariff. In short, only about 1½% of all U. S. trade is in the form of competing foreign commodities, dribbling over the top of the tariff dam. The dam is important, not because of what comes over it, but because of what it holds out, the domestic prices it impounds and sustains...
...Yellow stone River. In 1915 he decided China needed railroads, so he went there, got the concessions, built the roads. During the War he bored a hole through the mountains of Washington to reach the spruce forests and provide building material for airplanes. He has just finished a huge dam in Vermont...