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...fight, set out one evening last week to invest some of his earnings in Chicago Black Belt real estate. When the youthful owner of a house would not let him inspect the premises. Boxer Blackburn, who once did five years for killing a man, started a fight. Bested, he withdrew, returned with three friends, began blazing away with pistols at his opponent. Caught in the cross fire were a 9-year-old pickaninny, a blackamoor of 69, who subsequently died. Boxer Blackburn was jailed but one of Boxer Louis' entourage appeared to bail...
...world-wide sentiment in favor of discontinuing the Olympics: U. S. and Swedish flags were omitted from the decorations; Russia insisted that Finland should carry the Russian flag; officials infuriated the Irish team by adding their points to England's score; the U. S. tug-of-war team withdrew because British tuggers appeared in "monstrous boots"; Italian spectators were enraged when, after Marathoner Pietri Dorando had been dragged across the finish line, the race was awarded to the U. S.'s Johnny Hayes. In 1912, in Stockholm, the uproar concerned Jim Thorpe who was disqualified after winning...
...reduced to $7,500 because Frank A. Vanderlip and Lawrence Stern traded profitably in Paramount securities during the reorganization period. Claims brought by Kuhn, Loeb & Co., sponsors of many Paramount issues, and by Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, attorneys for the banking house, were disallowed because Kuhn, Loeb withdrew from the proceedings when the trustees in bankruptcy were planning to sue Paramount directors and Kuhn, Loeb partners...
...Joannides fastened a large hollow needle. This he jabbed between the unflinching woman's ribs, kept it there while the air sighed from the jar into the vacuum around her diseased lung. When he judged that the cushion of air was big enough to immobilize the lung, he withdrew the trocar. The slim hole between the ribs closed by itself...
...Federation as familiar as the red-white-&-blue bunting over the speakers' platform has been the squabble within the building trades group. It began with a series of jurisdictional disputes among the affiliated craft unions, following which the three biggest unions in the group (carpenters, bricklayers, electricians) withdrew from the Building Trades Department of the Federation but not from the Federation itself. At the San Francisco convention last year, the "triple alliance" sought and was given readmission. That called for re-election of officers within the Department, a move which brought howls from the Department President Michael John McDonough...