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Navin, Briggs and Kelsey became good friends, and when Mr. Navin's partner died in 1918 Walter Briggs, president of Briggs Mfg. Co., and John Kelsey, who had built up Kelsey Wheel Co., each bought a quarter interest in the Tigers, but allowed Navin full control of the club...
...this important post there are two serious contenders. One is Tammany's John Joseph O'Connor of Manhattan, brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner, 13 years a member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should...
During a "hot jam," Frenchman Emile Ignat, who was being relieved by his partner, Frenchman Emile Diot, gave Diot such an enthusiastic starting push that Diot's wheel wobbled and Ignat ran into it, spilling them both. It was the six-day bicycle race at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan, around an O-shaped pine-board track, with 15 teams of two men each dressed in bright jerseys, pedaling in relays on bicycles that cost $100, weigh 19 Ib. After 146 hours, three teams had circled the track 24,997 times and the winners had to be decided...
...found five rich mines, got almost nothing for them. When he found The Bullfrog in 1904 a saloon keeper kept him drunk for three weeks, got him to sell his claim for $1,000 and three barrels of whiskey. When he found The Harrisburg soon after he became a partner in the company formed to work it, taking stock which he did not know was assessable. Author Coolidge hired Shorty Harris to guide him across the Valley to Death Valley Scotty's ranch. Shorty ran true to tradition by getting lost. They traveled hard all day, made...
...Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson of Philadelphia's big Lit Brothers department store, and a onetime Morgan partner, President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania...