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Calvin Coolidge came in. Everybody stood up and clapped. Suddenly a man threw open the centre door and announced in a great voice: "The President-Elect of the United States." And who should walk in but The Chief himself...
...counsel. When the New Orleans investment house of Watson-Williams won the bid, a retaliatory political campaign was begun for free ferries and a free bridge. Gov. Oramel Simpson campaigned for re-election on a free-bridge platform. So did Huey P. Long. Long won. Gov. Simpson, retiring, threw the free ferries into cut-throat competition with the private bridge, pending construction of a state bridge on which no tolls would be charged. Under Gov. Long the state bridge is almost finished...
Wrestler Sonnenberg, 29, onetime Dartmouth footballer, butted and struggled with Wrestler Ed ("Strangler") Lewis; threw him once; drove him off the mat so often that Lewis cried quits. Many a spectator adjudged the match, fair and official though it was, more a football game than a wrestling bout. Wrestler Sonnenberg took up professional wrestling without premeditation. One night last year in Boston, after watching two grunters struggle, Sonnenberg said: "I could take those two bums in the ring now and lick both of 'em without getting up a sweat." Said Promoter Cy Mitchell...
...hardest fought contest was that between Der Maderosian and Joseph Lifrak '29, the Crimson captain. The M. I. T. man won by a decision after the struggle had gone into two overtime periods. These two men met for the first time in their freshman year when Lifrak threw Der Maderosian. That occasion was the only match in which the Tech man was ever pinned to the mat. In their second year, Der Maderosian won by decision...
...solidifying Zukor's investment, had made his fortune, for the time being, secure. He and Loew found that they had common interests. Neither owned enough houses to keep a "feature" busy the whole year. In the new Loew Co. Loew was president and Zukor nominal treasurer. Into it Zukor threw all his cinema theatres except the three he owned with Brady. Zukor said, "I could have cashed in then for between...