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While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...
Tired out by the longest hockey game on record (2 hr. 44 min.3 1 to 0 against the Boston Bruins) the Toronto Maple Leafs knew they had one chance in the first game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, against the New York Rangers. That was to make enough goals in the first period to win. The Rangers guessed that if they could pile up a lead in the first period, Toronto would let the game go, take its chance on winning three of the remaining four, all to be played on their home rink. The excited Madison...
...oarsmen shows a marked and immediate improvement, their chances for victory in the triangular contest will be negligible. The Princeton squad is still an unknown quantity in New England, but it is rumored that the Tiger is turning out a formidable four-mile crew, despite the fact that the longest water course at Princeton extends two miles...
...position altogether above its real importance. The war debts are only one phase of the perplexing international economic questions which depend on each other and must all be considered if there is to be a real solution. To stabilize currency the world over would probably be the longest step toward a solution. If this could be done the other knots would be far easier to entangle. World trade must be restored, prices of commodities increased, tariffs made more reasonable, the various barriers of trade, such as quotas and embargoes, removed, disarmament pushed forward. Which brings us back...
...exists along the same lines in obtaining quotations. If several firms seek quotations simultaneously, it is to the advantage of a broker to know his competitors' figures so that he can quote a slightly better figure, get the business Alexander J. Robertson of Ludwig, Robertson & Co. received the longest suspension-three years. He had also split commissions with customers (in effect a rebate) contrary to a long-standing Stock Exchange rule...