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...particularly anxious to help British rule in what had once been Germany's great African colony, denied that it had ever removed the skull from East African territory Last week came evidence that Germany had not lied, in a letter to The East African Standard from H. Malcolm Ross, British land agent in Tanganyika...
...from this section of the country will be en route to New York with the intention of calling upon you, or whoever may be responsible for this misrepresentation. The Western people like to deal with their fellowmen face to face anyhow, especially when a question of honor is involved . . . . ROSS HUMBLE...
Major General Frank Ross McCoy, commander of the First Cavalry Division in Texas, to be commander of the 7th Corps Area (Omaha). General McCoy is diplomatic but loves a fight. Once when a Southern professor heckled him during a speech at Georgia's Mercer University, he retorted: "There are ladies here, but I would be glad to argue with you-or have a discussion with you-or have a fight with you." He is one of the few fighters of San Juan Hill still on the active list. At that battle, wounded in the leg, he was treated...
...world's record the other day for beating a snare drum for six and a half hours. That is to say he beat the record.") He has a prodigious memory, and this year won honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously, likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited...
...debit balance is $1,000, of which $500 is 50%, adequate margin under the new Exchange rules. With speculative enthusiasm dulled by these rules, brokers amused themselves with a 1933 version of an ancient game of hazing new members-by a swindle in distillery shares. To Leland H. Ross Jr., new floor broker for Marshall, Campbell & Co., they gave an order to buy 5,000 shares of OWS (Owens Distillery). Guilelessly ignorant that no such firm existed, he asked directions to the post where it was traded, rushed to execute his order. On the quotation board the "last sale...