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...playing of Lenhart and Captain Gordon, Harvard's two ranking players, was the feature of the afternoon. Evans, leader of the Andover team, who is number seven in the National Junior ranking, and who had not previously been beaten this year, fell before the swift and accurate drives and powerful serves of Lenhart after a three set struggle...
...wielded rapiers rather than fountain pens, and shocked an apathetic world with flying gauntlets instead of with a satire which too often goes unperceived. On the other hand, the bitterness with which these gentlemen are wont to attack beloved American traditions might be considerably tempered by a realization that swift vengeance by a biting blade would probably follow an unguarded word...
...adopt a plan of financing which called for the issuance of 250,000 shares of prior preference stock. Opposition to the plan was headed by the New York Stock Exchange firm of Tucker, Bartholomew & Co. which represented existing preferred stockholders, among who are included a few members of the Swift family, also famed packers...
Thomas E. Wilson, in a special letter to the stockholders, assailed the Swift interests as competitors and opponents of his financial plans. He stated that a majority of the common stockholders, who were most affected by his scheme of financing, were in favor of it. He could not, however, secure the needed two-thirds vote, and his plan consequently fell through. Partly to conserve working capital and partly perhaps as a tit-for-tat with the rebellious preferred stockholders, the 'dividend on the latter issue was passed...
...export trade. And against economic disadvantages governmental policies are of singularly little avail. But while the prosperity and dominance of an earlier era may never return to the American merchant fleet, the record of the Leviathan seems to point out one possible field for exploitation: the development of a swift "liner" service across the Atlantic...