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...hard-driven pony of Poloist H, W, ("Rube") Williams (international squad) stumbled against the boundary boards of a San Mateo, Calif, polo field, leaped clean through a crowded spectators' box, felled one man in transit, crashed into two parked autos. Poloist Williams hurt his knee...
...Church, Press and Business set up a tremendous hue & cry directed against the entire city adminis- tration, but particularly against its dapper little Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Public feeling, which had smiled tolerantly at his wisecracks and philandering, which had overlooked his do- nothing policy on the unified transit problem and Unemployment conference, now flared up at what appeared to be culpable laxity. The Society for the Prevention of Crime urged Governor Roosevelt to invoke a little-known section of the city charter which empowers the Governor of New York to remove the Mayor of New York City. Many...
...Tobacco Co. meet April i they will be glad to hear President George Washington Hill report that last year their company's profits jumped from $30,000,000 to $43,000,000. They will also hear a speech from Richard Reid Rogers, one-time chief counsel of Interborough Rapid Transit Co. Stockholder Rogers has bitterly opposed American Tobacco's bonus- for-the-management plan. Last week he wrote to other stockholders calling attention to the fact that President Hill's 1930 compensation included $1.008,000 in salary and cash bonuses, $1,275,000 in stock...
Enterprising founder of Air Ads is Sumner Sewall, onetime general traffic manager of Colonial Airways System (now part of American Airways, Inc.). With him is associated Clinton Elliott, whose father as president of Eastern Advertising Co. developed the rapid transit advertising field in New England. Adman Sewall is grandson of the late great Arthur Sewall, shipbuilder of Bath, Maine, and a cousin of beauteous Camilla Sewall Edge, wife of the U. S. Ambassador to France. He flew with the celebrated 95th Pursuit Squadron, was officially credited with bringing down seven enemy planes in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives...
Passengers carried by Manhattan's transit system during the third quarter of 1930 came to 752,136,000, a decrease of 3.8%. This marked the first decline since 1915, threatened to jumble the Untermyer Consolidation Plan (TIME...