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...uprising before it reaches the blood-&-bullets stage. As one remedy for revolution Arkansas' Joseph Taylor Robinson, leather-lunged Democratic Senate leader, last week produced a 25-page bill to relieve mortgage-ridden farmers. If the revolutionaries could be bought off with cash, the conservative lawyer from Little Rock was ready to invest $1,500,000,000 for civil peace...
...feet in three years and immediately was offered $75,000 a year to be president of the Rock Island. As president of the B. & O. he was getting $25,000. Hardheaded, he wanted the money. Personally ambitious and aggressive, he wanted to do things by himself...
...took the Rock Island job and thereby probably kept himself from becoming head of a great system long before this. Within nine months he had split with Rock Island's backers, but under his five-year contract he continued to draw his $75,000, largest in the U. S. He went to the Kansas City Southern, described at the time as "a right of way and two streaks of rust," and promptly put that firmly on its feet...
...Dome (gold) Mines 2,196* 1,690* Electric Bond & Share 13,566† 25,050† Hart, Schaffner & Marx 4,015D 2,994D Industrial Rayon 237 683 Stahl-Meyer (meats) 64D 66 United Corp. 13,824 18,445 U.S. Pipe & Foundry 1,273D 1,012 White Rock...
Principal cockfighting centres in the U. S. are at Stevenson and Uniontown. Ala.; Biloxi, Miss.; Little Rock; New Orleans; Bartlesville, Okla.; El Paso; Highlandtown, near Baltimore; Memphis; Lexington; the Sierra Game Club in Grass Valley, Calif.; Bismarck, Mo.; Grand Rapids; Newark; Aiken, S. C., where North and South Carolina breeders have been holding interstate mains for two centuries. Because cockfighting, though firmly established and thoroughly organized, needs to be furtively conducted, there are no precise statistics on the sport. Cockers estimate that 1,000 mains are held in the U. S. every year, that wagers, purses and admission fees amount...