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...latter, though retarded, was by no means beaten yet. Governor Roosevelt's opposition remained split on everything save opposing him. The Garner-Smith Favorite Sons forces might hold a one-third veto power over the convention but there was no sign yet of their combining on a candidate who could muster the nominative two-thirds majority of 770. The idea of Al Smith sitting down to dicker with his old foes, Messrs. McAdoo and Hearst, produced only grins among those who recalled the Battle of Madison Square Garden...
...Journal. Activity of the stock increased, the price was jumped from $4 to $7.50 in the second week of January 1930. Then the directors of Indian Motocycle purchased the rights to a Diesel airplane engine (for 50,000 shares of stock) from a well-known British inventor, agreed to split profits with him. Plummer got the story in the London Daily Mail, distributed reprints to the U. S. press. Circulars and telegrams were sent out by persuasive Hansell & Co. By March the price of Indian Motocycle reached $17, then sank to $5.50 in June when Plummer, and presumably the pool...
With all testimony in, the polyglot Honolulu jury trying Lieut. Thomas Hedges Massie, U. S. N.. his mother-in-law and two naval enlisted men for second-degree murder, was left last week with a split-second blind spot on the actual killing of Joseph Kahahawai Jr., Hawaiian buck. Nowhere in the sworn evidence was an eye-witness account of all that happened that early January morning at Mrs. Granville Roland Fortescue's. Between the time Kahahawai, cowed by a revolver held by Lieut. Massie, allegedly confessed to the ravishment of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie and a bullet...
...prize went jointly to Dr. Frederick Grant Banting, who declares that he was the "originator of the idea," and to Professor John James Rickard Macleod, his supervisor, both of whom split their prize money with two other men-Physiologist Charles Herbert Best, Biochemist Collip- who had helped in the investigations...
Events beyond any one man's control which made this Conservative victory possible included the Labor Cabinet's split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold?but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...