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...people. Last week he announced that he "could not spare the time" to run for President himself, graciously endorsed Governor Alfred Mossman Landon of Kansas as the second best choice. Observers, quick to see the hand of Publisher William Randolph Hearst behind the move, thought the probable split in California's Republican ranks would be more than Governor Merriam bargained...
This year's deadlock for the Big Ten title thus became as complete as possible. Both Indiana and Purdue had played much the same schedules. Indiana had split two games with Ohio State but Purdue had split two with Northwestern. Purdue had beaten Ohio State twice but Indiana had done the same thing to Northwestern...
...share-perhaps lower, for the stock has never been listed, was then unknown even to over-the-counter traders. Next year it sold as high as $15. By last October it was selling in the 80's, when the stockholders voted a three-for-one split. The new stock continued to climb, was selling last week at $39, equivalent to $117 for the old shares. Ten years ago a long-headed speculator could have bought 10,000 shares for $1,000. Today, if he had held on to his original investment, he would have held 30,000 shares worth...
...another bout, in which the judges were likewise split, it is said that the referee pronounced the match a draw but that again Yale received credit for a straight...
...stock of National Lead Co. closed on the New York Stock Exchange at $221 a share. On Feb. 26 it closed at $248.50 and on Feb. 27 at $288, making a gain of $67 in two days' trading. The outburst was caused by a 10-to-1 stock split, National Lead offering ten shares of a new $10 par common for each share of the $100 common now held. From an arithmetical standpoint, a stock split 10-for-1 should emerge with the new shares selling at one-tenth the price of the old. The market, however, reacted enthusiastically...