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Both the first line and the line which followed it showed a powerful offense in opening up gaps in the opposing wall for their backs to run through for substantial gains. On the defense the scrubs. -with Wittmer Gilroy, Gorman and Glick carrying the ball, were unable to make gains through them. The scrubs used Harvard plays...
Although the scrimmage had occupied the greater part of an hour, Coach Horween elected to keep his first string eleven intact, and once more the ineligibles were given the ball on their own 20-yard line. Two line plunges failed to dent the Crimson torward wall, and on the following play the Princeton backfield mixed its signals and the ball sailed over the goal-line, where Crawford overwhelmed by four Crimson linemen, managed to recover the pigskin. Two points were, however, added to the University total through the medium of a safety...
Source. Thomas W. Lamont, potent Morgan partner, not a signatory, declared that the manifesto has been in circulation among international financiers for some time. Wall Street supplied the rumor that it took final form when Montagu Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, and Dr. Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, conferred with Benjamin Strong, Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, at Antibes, French Riviera (TIME, Aug. 30). Of these three fiscal tycoons only Dr. Schacht would comment last week: "The manifesto is connected closely with the recent conference of German and British industrialists in England [TIME...
...against the 12% limit, culminating in a national referendum (1919) which upheld prohibition 489,660 to 305,241; 1919-23?demands by Spain and Portugal that the wines of those countries be admitted to Norway, were backed up by those nations with the temporary erection of a tariff wall "prohibiting" the sale of Norwegian fish to their nationals, an act which led to relaxation of the Norwegian law to permit the sale of all drinkables except spirits; 1923-26?increase in spirit smuggling into Norway until even laborers can now afford the one-time "national spirit," Braendevin...
Trinity Church, on Broadway opposite Wall Street, two centuries ago owned approximately 60 acres of Manhattan land between Broadway and the Hudson River. Much other land has been donated since. Much has been sold. Trinity still is a very great landlord, and, like all great landlords of urban property, cannot keep supervision on its tenants-be they banks, brothels or Macfaddens...