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...Salt Lake City, Utah...
Then Pat Harrison, Mississippi funnyman, proceeded to pour salt on the wounds, said: "Let him [David A. Reed] go back and receive the cheers of the thugs and corruptionists of Pennsylvania and let them say to him that he is the Knight of the Closed and Corrupt Ballot Box. . . ." It was one minute before noon and the gavel of Vice President Dawes rapped sharply. "Oh, it's a shame to spoil a good speech like this," said Mr. Harrison. By the look in his beady-eyes, the Vice President had something curt to say. He said it: "The Chair...
Investors in the securities of the 1,800 U. S. railroads waited for the Court's decision on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake's valuation. The Interstate Commerce Commission had said the line was worth $45,000,000; road officials claimed $76,000,000 valuation. Such discrepancy, if extended to all U. S. railroads, would mean 20 to 25 billion dollars and a great tumbling over of the price of securities. This was considered a test case, but really...
...American revolution. A careful count revealed no casualties, the sole result being the inauguration of two men named Brown as the new Gridiron president. Ultimately it became clear that only one Brown, by name Ashmun Norris of the Providence Journal, was president. The other, Harry Jay Brown of the Salt Lake Tribune, was vice president...
...Havre, France, one Joseph Eggermaier, Czechoslovak, tired, raw-footed, hid in a life boat of the French Liner Paris. He had walked the 600 miles from Liege, Belgium; now he would sneak a free eight-hour ride to Plymouth, England. He settled himself and yawned . . . salt air was making him sleepy. . . . He awoke 24 hours later, beyond the ship's stop at Plymouth; was perforce carried to Manhattan, where last week immigration officers turned him back to France...