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...giving him a stiff battle. Lovelock, a great distance runner from New Zealand, should win the mile run for the Britons if he can approach his best time of four minutes, 12 seconds in that event. Oxford is also sending Lang, Dunean an Mabey while Ivanovie, Stothard, Horan, Davis, Thornton and Marsh are to represent Cambridge against the Americans...
Amos Niven Wilder, poet, brother of Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder...
...racing week for the King & Queen. Two days after the Derby they attended the 151st running of the Oak Stakes for fillies at Epsom Downs, watched E. T. Thornton-Smith's Chatelaine win by a length and a half...
Letters were introduced showing that Mitchell had sold 8,500 shares of Anaconda Copper to his friend, President William D. Thornton of Greene Cananea Copper, but had bought them back four months later for the same price. This transaction Medalie called a dummy sale to escape income taxes. Defense Counsel Steuer called it a favor to Anaconda Cop- per who, he said, had asked Mitchell to sell it to Thornton in order to prevent public dumping of the copper shares...
...evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president of Greene...