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...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
...wreck, was pulled out alive with his steel helmet ground paper-thin against the wall. For the first 250 miles, the youngest driver in the field, Rex Mays of Los Angeles, who won the pole position for his record-breaking qualifying trial, set the pace. At 300 miles, he withdrew when his Gilmore Special broke a spring shackle. The last of four new Ford V-8's went out at 360 miles. At 450 miles, a drizzle made the track slippery and officials waved the yellow flag. This meant that the speed limit was 75 m.p.h. and the drivers...
...small independent oil company producing less than 4,000,000 bbl. a year is Simms Petroleum Co. of Texas. In 1929 it was making a tidy profit of $2,300,000. In 1931 it lost $2,651,000. Last October the company withdrew from the retail gasoline business, sold its service stations. Marketing activities practically ceased, two refineries were shut down. Last week Simms Petroleum sought permission from its stockholders to sell its chief subsidiary and biggest asset, Simms Oil Co., owner of most of the parent concern's oil properties, to Tide Water...
...defends himself, excuses his powerlessness to save the Romanovs by putting the blame on England. Kerensky says he did everything he could to get the Tsar and his family out of Russia while there was still time, says that England offered them asylum and then, when everything was arranged, withdrew the invitation...
...Versailles (TIME, March 25) Last week M. Flandin decided that French youths of the class which has just finished its military training shall not return to their homes but remain under arms until further orders. Newly trustful of Italy since the Mussolini-Laval accord (TIME, Jan. 14), France withdrew nearly 30,000 troops last week from her mountainous Italian frontier, sent them scurrying cross-country to the pleasant valleys and leafy woods Germans might attack...