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...following the ominous conference between Referee Seabury and Governor Roosevelt cast a pall over Tammany Hall. Nor was the pall entirely dissipated by Governor Roosevelt's dismissal of ouster proceedings against Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker urged by the City Affairs Committee (TIME, May 4 et ante). The move was expected by most observers in view of the impending investigation of the entire municipal administration by a legislative committee under Referee Seabury (TIME, April 6). Tammany wanted a more ornamental exoneration of the playboy Mayor than it found in the Governor's bare announcement: "The present charges were...
...part humor and rapid shifting of suspicion that Subway Express had a successful Broadway run. It was a much better play than it is a picture, principally because the single setting, which gave the play its concentration, cheats the camera of its most vital effect, the ability to move in a flash of a second over all space and time...
...eleven branch offices, with membership on 16 stock and commodity exchanges, with offices in London, Liverpool and Paris, Pynchon & Co. formed an important unit in the U. S. investment structure. It came into existence 36 years ago in Chicago as Raymond, Pynchon & Co., a Board of Trade house and moved to New York the same year. Once thought to be its prize customer was Benjamin F. ("Old Hutch") Hutchinson, greatest of the grain manipulators, who cornered wheat in 1888. Perhaps one reason for the move to Manhattan was that at that time potent Chicago speculators, including John...
With yesterday's developments, however, everything is as before again. Dartmouth and Stanford will play their game in Cambridge while Boston College and Holy Cross will play their game at Fenway Park. There has been some talk of moving this latter contest to Fitton Field, Worcester, the home grounds of the Crusaders, but the probability of that move is remote...
...change to the new rules is also another demonstration of the influence that the players of the game have upon the regulation of it. Last year, after the professionals had adopted these rules, the move to have the colleges use them was tabled largely because of the influence of the smaller colleges. Harvard players, however, voted for the change. This year they did so again and with the aid of the other colleges, who had seen the success of the rules in professional games, gained the acceptance of the improved regulations. There is little doubt but that next year will...