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...little reflection will show that horse racing has had a close relation to the intellectual life from the earliest times. In all sacred and profane literature the horse has been the intimate friend of man, and it has been his mission to take upon his broad shoulders the load that had become too heavy for his master. The sun itself travelled in a chariot drawn by the most beautiful and the swiftest horses...
...urged to make a four-week tour ending in California on election eve. His advisers reminded him that Charles Evans Hughes and Senator Borah, mainstays in his 1928 canvass, were not campaigning for him again this year, hinted that he would have to carry more of the party load...
...vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over to the rummage shop with a load of Mrs. McCormick's lesser belongings. The etchings went fast. The price rose from $2 to $3.50, and soon after reporters and cameramen had publicized them, the last had been snapped up at $5. From the office of the impoverished firm of Krenn & Dato a secretary telephoned hastily...
Before crossing the mountains of Arizona on her recent return from the Pacific Coast, U. S. S. Akron released two airplanes from her belly, cut 6,000 lb. from her load (TIME, June 27). Last week Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett revealed how the Akron is reversing that practice. When atmospheric conditions make it impossible for the ship to land without valving out part of her costly helium, her commander flashes a radio call for two combat planes. The planes fly out from Lakehurst, hook on to the Akron. The 6,000 lb. added ballast permits the ship to land...
Bankers for the big Insull operating properties rubbed their hands in satisfaction last week. The $65,000,000 load of short-term debt left by Samuel Insull had been lifted from the necks of Commonwealth Edison, Peoples Gas, Light & Coke, Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois. Commonwealth and Peoples long-term issues had been gobbled up by investors (TIME, Aug. 15); Commonwealth 5½'s had been quickly bid up 5 points above their issue price. A $20,000,000 Public Service issue was marketed early this week. With independent accountants the bankers had been over the books...