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...among the Buckeye State's regular Democrats. For Martin Davey, who turned his father's experiments in tree surgery into a profitable, high-powered business, got into office by a pair of political accidents. Bitterly opposed by party regulars, he was nominated only because two other candidates split the majority. He slid into the executive mansion more than 300,000 votes behind the national ticket, in the wake of the 1934 Roosevelt landslide. His campaign was featured by a prolonged altercation with his Republican opponent as to whether rich Mr. Davey had or had not wrecked a bank...
...Partial cause of this was the unprecedented importation of 1,400,000 indigent Greeks from Turkey and Bulgaria in exchange for deported Turks and Bulgars. Without Venizelos, Greece entered a typical Balkan shambles of dictatorships and coups d'état, with the royalists always gaining. The old split between the Balkan interests of the repopulated peninsula and the world-trading Mediterranean interests of the islands began to widen, complicated by the unreconciled Macedonians of the north. Finally, in 1928, Venizelos cashed in his popularity for one more Premiership, made alliances with Mussolini and Mustapha Kemal, reasserted the Mediterranean policy...
...teams played 80 minutes to end in a 4-4 tie to split the series; in 1933 Harvard won in overtime on Bob Saltonstall's goal; and last year Captain Joe Gilligan scored for Yale in an extra period...
...Trust For Youth." Listeners, wondering on what this money will be spent, heard H. R. H. read with feeling the part about "A new Youth Movement, non-militaristic but social!", then the part about "there is no intention to create any new juvenile organizations." The Jubilee money will be split, it presently appeared, among the Boy Scouts, the Girl Guides, the Church Lads Brigade and such...
...were in no hurry. After 47 years 1,980,552 Texas Pacific acres are still unsold. Meantime the certificates have sometimes made exciting market history. After oil was discovered near some of the Trust's vast tracts in 1926, they touched a high of $3,650, were then split 100-for-1, and the new little certificates climbed as high as $40, equivalent to $4,000 for the old. Currently they are selling around...