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...from her own estate at Middleburg, Va., Mary Harriman Rumsey, chairman of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board, was riding in the Piedmont hunt when her mount stumbled and threw her. An expert rider, Mrs. Rumsey was not spry enough to extricate herself before the horse rolled on her. broke her thigh and four ribs. Rushed to a Washington hospital, she was given a blood transfusion, reported "getting along nicely...
...consequences to him or his company. From behind a rough-hewn speaker's table in the warehouse he declared: "The leaders of the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians....I would urge your continued co-operation with these men...." Espousing New Deal economics, the man who threw a scare into big tobaccomen two years ago with the 10? package,* continued: "The farming classes have been let down by too much profit-taking by industrialists. It is no wonder that the game has been broken up. There has been too much takeout. The country cannot have prosperity unless...
...manufacturer, he took over and ably expanded his father's business, retired a rich man in 1924. Growing apace, meantime, was the renown of the books & manuscripts he was carefully assembling. In 1923 he presented them to the University of Michigan (which had graduated him in 1882) and threw in a graceful white building to house them. The collection includes 50,000 documents of the Earl of Shelburne, British Prime Minister at the end of the American revolution; 25,000 documents and 350 hand-made maps of Sir Henry Clinton comprising the actual British Headquarters Papers; 15 folio manuscript...
...United States threw its full authority tonight behind a plan to control all manufactures and sales of munitions, advanced as a short cut throughout the labyrinth of European politics toward the ultimate goal of disarmament...
Oregon State's Red Franklin threw a pass. Washington's Chuck Bond caught it, scuttled 36 yd. for a fourth-period touchdown. It gave his team the game, 14-to-7, a chance to settle the Conference title with Stanford this week...