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...cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber clubs...
Aged 55, "Joe" Cotton, a Harvard man, had won great renown as a corporation lawyer in Manhattan when he specialized in organizations (Radio Corp., International Harvester Co.) and reorganizations (N. Y. Rys. Corp.; Childs Restaurants; Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul; Dodge- Chrysler; Goodyear Tire & Rubber). During the War as head of the meat division of the Food Administration under Herbert Hoover he controlled the "biggest packing trust in the world." In May 1929 the President picked him as one of his "new patriots" who would sacrifice a $100,000 per year private practice for a $10,000 per year Federal...
Eighty-four-year old Inventor Thomas Alva Edison last week visited Rubber-man Harvey Samuel Firestone's Miami Beach plantations, went to bed with a new invention, the "de-humidifier," in his room-a machine to abstract moisture from the air, lessen humidity fatigue. Mr. Edison arose beaming, described the apparatus as not yet ready for the market...
...Olympics. The Old American is sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Swimming Association and played by Pennsylvania, Columbia, C. C. N. Y., Yale, Syracuse, Rutgers, Navy, Princeton. Recently Dartmouth resigned from the Intercollegiate Swimming Association to get out of playing it. The Old American is played with a half-inflated white rubber ball which is dragged under water as soon as it is tossed in and usually kept there until a goal is scored. Bubbles, choked cries, limbs eccentrically twisted rise to the surface. Faces reappearing after long confinement under water are sometimes empurpled, sometimes tombstone-pallid. Spectators find little science...
...made goods in their respective areas with a view to including other countries in the embargo. Complaint by U. S. tobacco producers, feeling the pinch of competition, that-Sumatra cigar wrappers from the Dutch East Indies were convict-grown caused the Treasury to start investigating. Under, study also were rubber imports from slave-ridden Liberia, phosphates from Morocco...