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...Academy, a high-standing graduate in engineering, with four letters and two sabres for all-around athletic prowess. Athlete Vidal went to the 1919 Inter-Allied games in Paris, played on the winning rugby team. Next year he was at the Olympics in Antwerp. An automobile crash had split a muscle in his throwing arm. Ambidextrous, he hurled the javelin with the other, finished seventh in the Decathlon...
...surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters, scoundrels, in a mad stampede to stake out new homesteads. Before that day was done, horses had been shot, prairie fires were raging and men had been trampled to death...
...bottle company. That deal on top of the famed whiskey dividend (one case, pre-prohibition, for each five shares) made Wall Street acutely conscious of National Distillers. In last summer's boom its stock hit a high of $124. Last month National Distillers contributed the first major stock-split to the New Deal market-three...
...kept proper account books. Ostensible purpose of the suit is to force an accounting and to depose Robert II. Real purpose is probably to gain a bargaining advantage for the Atwoods in the complicated jockeying of the four branches of King heirs for strategic positions in the final split-up of the estate...
...section Mrs. King's will specified a split-up ten years after her death, in another, 15 years after...