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...hanged last month after raping an old white woman. They seized four suspects, placed them in the guard room of the armory at Salisbury. When a crowd of 400 angry citizens gathered outside the armory to protest the arrest, cry for the impeachment of Governor Ritchie, militiamen threw tear...
...hurt in an automobile accident, laid up for several months. Whether lor this or for other reasons, neither Mr. Fox nor his bankers took the obvious step of selling to the public new stock in Fox Film and Fox Theatres. Then the market crash of October 1929 threw the whole problem of refinancing Mr. Fox into the banks...
...particular case a student from the West was refused by four of five companies. The agent, in each case, upon learning he was a Harvard student threw up his hands and said: "We don't want your business...
...balloon was released, Commander Settle sat confidently atop the gondola and threw off ballast. A 55 m.p.h. wind swept the bag southeast across Ohio toward Washington. Near East Liverpool (Ohio) they were up 12,500 ft.; near Pittsburgh, up 49,000. At last, they scratched over 58,000 ft., began to descend, and while an all-night search for them was begun by Navy planes and land parties, landed near Bridgeton, N. J. They had not broken the Russian record, but they had sent the first U. S. balloon into the stratosphere...
...profit. Second member of the Commission was another son of a Scottish parson, Sir Charles Addis, onetime director of the Bank of England. These two Scotsmen Premier Bennett balanced with two Canadian bankers, Sir William Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier John Edward Brownlee of the Province of Alberta. For two months the Commissioners have inched over the wide Canadian landscape from bank to bank (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week, after the two Scotsmen had gotten back to London for congratulation dinners, the Commission's findings were issued at Ottawa...