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1/30,000th. Instead of simply "a New York drug company," a story in the New York American indicated that "the York drug company" was involved in bootlegging. The York Drug Co. sued for $100,000, withdrew amicably last week when Hearst attorneys convinced them the error was unavoidable. A linotype machine had failed to cast the essential explanatory words because of a 1/30,000th-inch maladjustment...
When Detroit's successful mayorality candidate Charles Bowles entered office he delighted businessmen by drafting Businessman Harold H. Emmons to be police commissioner. But some businessmen withdrew their support from the Mayor because, among his appointees was John Gillespie, onetime police commissioner, old-line politician, to be Commissioner of Public Works. Friction arose quickly between Commissioners Emmons and Gillespie. Mr. Emmons now charges that during a business trip he took shortly after his installation, the Mayor permitted the opening of long-closed big gambling dens. He also now charges that he was forced to surrender to the Mayor...
...running strong on her personal popularity, without organization support. No. 5 and last had been Warren E. Green, dirt farmer of Hazel. For eleven ballots in the Pierre convention Miss Pyle deadlocked with Brooke Howell of Frederick for first place. Suddenly Mr. Howell, on orders from the state organization, withdrew, throwing his support to Last Man Green, who was nominated on the next ballot. Thus machine politics had routed personality, topsy-turvied the popular vote...
From four directions came moves to liberate Prospector Bristow. With Secretary of State Stimson in London, lesser officials of the U. S. State Department protested to Mexico City. Prospector Bristow's son, ''Obie," mistrusting officialdom, withdrew $15,000 in gold from two Texas banks to ransom his father. Largely because of the football prowess of son "Obie" at the University of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Times sent one Merle Blakely, staff writer, to assist and report the bandit hunt. From the railhead of the only railway in the State of Nayarit the Mexican Government hastily sent out a squadron...
...Brothers Van Sweringen continued their mysterious way. On the one hand, they acted like good little boys and withdrew their C. & 0. merger in order to revise it to suit their Uncle I. C. C. On the other hand, they deeply pained their good Uncle by their persistent buying into independent railroads. Not only do they control 47.8% of the voting stock of Missouri Pacific, but it is now revealed that their Allegheny Corp. owns 20.8% of the voting shares of Kansas City Southern, often called ''the straightest railroad in the U.S." Just how much fire there is behind...