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This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, the University team meets New York University in the Hemenway Gymnasium. To date, the latter has shown strength in defeating the Navy. For this reason, a close match is looked for by the Harvard team which has split even out of two starts...
...split-pea industry was seriously threatened by importations from China. A Port Huron, Mich., witness extolled the power-producing qualities of U. S.. split-pea soup. In a test, he said, cross-country runners were fed for 16 days on split-pea soup and they got 65 miles to the gallon...
...July 7 it was at 159⅞; Aug. 11, 199⅜; Sept. 15, 264; Oct. 13, 282. Then came rumors, followed by announcements, of chain store expansion, of a stock-split. Montgomery Ward skyrocketed. In the week ending Oct. 20, the stock climbed to 352, on Nov. 30 it reached its high for the year of 439⅞* Thus, during the year Montgomery Ward rose from 117 to 439⅞, an increase of 322⅞ points or about...
John Davison Rockefeller Jr., 55, is 5 ft, 10 in. tall, weighs 170 Ibs., and has six children. As a youngster he broke stone and split wood on his father's estate in Cleveland for 15¢ an hour, also earned 5¢ an hour for practicing on the violin. Now he keeps in condition by playing squash and using gymnasium apparatus. He is one of the quietest men in the public...
...Wisconsin House. After 15 ballots, which included a 49 to 49 deadlock, Charles B. Perry, regular candidate for the House speakership, won over Alvin C. Reis, Progressive candidate. Mr. Reis was one of the signers of the Kohler-ouster petition. While his defeat was aided by the split of the Progressive faction between Mr. Reis and John W. Eber, 1927 speaker, the fact remained that the Governor's supporters secured control of the House, thereby the carnage sufferred by La Follettism...