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...selection of Chicago as next year's Republican convention city smacked of a public auction. When Philadelphia. Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland withdrew for lack of bidding cash. Atlantic City alone contested the sale. From Chicago had come a citizens delegation headed by Democrat Edward Nash Hurley, Wartime chairman of the Shipping Board, and Col. Robert Isham ("Secret Six") Randolph of the Chicago Association of Commerce. They offered the G. O. P. the city's new indoor Stadium for its meetings, promised reduced railroad fares and moderate hotel rates. Of most importance, they waved a certified check...
...Downing's racehorse Northdrift: the November Handicap, at Manchester, England, on a muddy track and in a fog so thick that no one except the jockeys saw the middle of the race. To the dismay of speculators in the $10,000,000 Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, the Aga Khan withdrew his favorite, Ut Majeur, just before the start, because he thought Ut Majeur's weight handicap, 43 lb. greater than Northdrift's, was too much for a slippery track...
...copper company selling abroad independently would have no trouble underselling Copper Exporters. Last week, in expectation of a rough-&-tumble fight, sellers deluged the copper market, buyers withdrew. The result was a new low of 6¼?. Hence the alarm of Katanga, great proponent of sales pools; hence Katanga's hope-that their acceptance of curtailment would send Phelps Dodge back to the fold...
...Chicago. Nicholas Perisich went to his bank, withdrew $10,000. Next day the bank failed. "I was just lucky," said he. Lucky Nicholas Perisich locked his $10,000 in an old trunk from which it was soon removed by a burglar...
...beginning of systematic coaching and organized practice: training table was established; and the game itself was subject to rigid faculty rulings. Games at first were not allowed in Cambridge until after 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and in 1885, football was abolished in Harvard and the team withdrew from the Intercollegiate Association. The ban was lifted the following winter. In the fall of 1890. Harvard broke a jinx of long standing to defeat a great Yale team in the first victory over the Elis since...