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...narrow margin he lost the run-off primary, but four years later he became the first Governor of Mississippi ever to serve a second term. In that term he wrecked the State's credit. In one swoop he angrily fired 179 State College officials & faculty members, remarking: "Boys, we've just hung up a new record!" So discredited was he that he refused to call a special tax session of the Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named...
Following his company's instructions to be on the lookout for counterfeit gold bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice...
...used another pair of gloves to hack the face of Middleweight Champion Vince Dundee. After eleven rounds, Dundee really began to fight. He won the last four rounds, did his best work in the 15th. but when the bell rang two of the three judges thought Yarosz's margin earlier in the bout entitled him to the championship...
...Observers believe, however, that this will not have the effect of giving Harvard men the benefit of continued very low prices, because the profit to the student organization is practically entirely in the nature of a sales commission, and the lower the basic prices go, the smaller becomes the margin available for commission allowance by the commercial house actually producing the service. The ultimate effect would be to make the field unprofitable for student organizations, with consequent lessening of competition and a corresponding rise in prices. But in the meantime, indications are that there will be a stiff fight...
...familiar with the Harvard Square trade have expressed the opinion to the CRIMSON that the list of items upon which discounts will be given will be so limited by the number of items upon which manufacturers insist upon obtaining published retail prices, and also by those in which the margin of retail profit is already small, that the service will not be entirely satisfactory to student members...