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...Rapids company making high class general furniture. The concern was one of the oldest in Grand Rapids and its $9,000,000-a-year sales volume made it one of the biggest. It was not operating at a profit because the furniture business then, as now, was confused and upset. Zalmon Gilbert Simmons, president of Simmons Co., planned not only to make his company potent in furniture but to bring stability and prosperity to the entire industry. In great advertisements in the Grand Rapids press he stated: "It is my desire to build this furniture business up, not down...
...Pacific coast meat stores, reached the finals of the Sea Bright (N. J.) Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club's invitation tournament after a series of smart victories in the early rounds. He was beaten, in perhaps the most surprising match of the year, by Sidney B. Wood Jr., who upset his game by softly patting chop strokes across...
...struggle with fog, rain & low clouds the whole way. But Navigator Magyar caught many radio bearings; the monoplane, another Lockheed, hit the coast of France only a trifle off course. They had estimated 26 hours flight to Budapest with two hours fuel to spare. But headwinds over Europe upset that. Just 25 miles short of the goal, at 12 minutes past the 26th hour, the Wasp motor gasped for gas. Endres landed the plane in a rough field, damaging the undercarriage and propeller. Thence another ship whisked the flyers to Budapest's Matjasfoeld airdrome where, amid a great throng...
Each morning President Hoover scans all the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington papers before he reaches his office. He has little sense of personal news value, no capacity to ignore what he dislikes.* The story of his fast ride from the Rapidan upset him because obviously he had violated Virginia's 45 m. p. h. speed law. But his leak investigation served only to revive public interest in this and other stories to which he objected. Among these were newssquibs that...
...Primo Camera, monstrous Italian heavyweight: a bout at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; by knocking out one Pat Redmond, unknown and incapable Irishman, in the first round. Both giants moved ponderously about the ring. Camera pushing his great fist, Redmond pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French...