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...Adopted a resolution to erect a $50,000 monument to the late William Crawford Gorgas, the Army's surgeon general who rid the Panama Canal Zone of yellow fever...
Loft-Loft. Loft, Inc., the candy company which last year rid itself of its Loft family founders, last week found itself with a double directorate and two factions fighting for control. Official records are in the hands of a group headed by Alfred R. Miller, of A. R. Miller & Co., investment securities house, who has been Loft president since the Lofts left. Meanwhile Charles G. Guth, onetime head of Mavis Candies, Inc. (bought by Loft in April 1929 for $1,000,000), has been elected Loft president by another stockholding group which is demanding access to the records. The Delaware...
...statistics, he declared that Louisville's rate of population growth had increased eight times in the last ten years, that its factory output had doubled, that its property values had almost trebled. Declared he: "Ninety per cent of Louisville's prosperity is due to the fact that we got rid of the blasting, blighting liquor business...
...Great Falls, Mont., Art Leweke got rid of a hungry golden eagle by tying to its tail a toy balloon, a brass bell...
...please the drys, and obtainable in order to satisfy the wets," and stating with commendable simplicity that "the majority of students, at least in the East, have been breaking the (prohibition) law," The Harvard Crimson has enlisted the aid of the Harvard Debating Council in a crusade to rid the country of the existing enforcement laws for the Eighteenth Amendment. The debators have formulated their own "plan for the enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment," and the journalists are laboring mightily to crystallize undergraduate opinion behind a definite plan of prohibition reform...