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...employes but to the owners and the Surrogate. Chain-Publisher Paul Block, who is said to have bid $10,000,000 for the Sunday and morning Worlds last August, rushed from the Pacific Coast into court to raise Publisher Howard's best bid by $500.000. But presently he withdrew, having, he said, just learned of the Scripps-Howard contract and the effort of the Worlds' employes. This brought from Gustavus A. Rogers, attorney for the employes, the charge that Publisher Block was really representing William Randolph Hearst, and that his precipitate withdrawal was due to connivance with Publisher...
...unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion, has an ideal stride for indoor track but he has only recently recovered from an attack of bronchitis. He withdrew from the 1,000-yd. race and placed only third in the two-mi, steeplechase. To some of the foreign athletes, however, boards were new. Seraphin Martin of France was second in the 600-yd., which Phil Edwards, late of New York University, won for the fourth year in succession...
...present Duke of Portland attempted to sell the vase at public auction. Bids stopped at $147,000. His Grace's agents indignantly withdrew it from sale, returned it to the museum...
...defending themselves from the cheers of the Freshmen, who attended in a body, baptised the gathering, while students strolled about, souvenir hunting. Several squadrons of policemen, fearing an informal repetition of Saturday night's affair, also attended in a body. As silently as they had come, the fire engines withdrew at 10.19 o'clock...
...resigned in September to make his vain race as New York's Republican nominee for Governor, has caused President Hoover much political tribulation. His personal friends urged one candidate while professional Republican politicians urged another for the appointment. Last week the deadlock was broken when the Hoover candidate withdrew and the President, with the goodwill of all sides, appointed a third man as U. S. District Attorney. He was plump, pink, bald, middle-aged George Zerden Medalie, who has a soft, husky voice and gentle brown eyes. Behind District Attorney Medalie's mild exterior, however, was a long...