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...picture was common around Cheyenne, Wyoming, which was later named for these super-redskins. Last week, U. S. Senator Francis Emroy Warren, 82, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, last governor of Wyoming territory, first governor of Wyoming state, rancher, realtor, arose from his Cheyenne verandah, strode down the asphalt street. White-haired, senectissimus of all U. S. Senators, Mr. Warren had recently completed his annual summer report on appropriations (TIME, July 26). Mr. Warren had public respect, not only as a Senator, businessman - many had that - but as a substantial patron of the drama. Perhaps he recalled, as he passed...
...Local authorities are expected to spend $431,000,000. State highway departments are expected to spend $598,000,000 (of which $118,000,000 is to come as contributions from the Federal Government). The total expenditure of slightly over a billion dollars will provide 6,751 miles of asphalt, concrete and brick roads, 14,320 miles of sand-clay, gravel and macadam, and 8,145 miles of improved dirt road?and maintenance of 234,582 miles of roadway...
...year two citizens of Texas incorporated this company in Delaware, and got a permit to do business in Texas. It had a capital of $10,000 and borrowed about $25,000 additional. It got a contract from the Highway Commission to "surface" about 1,000 miles of road with "asphalt topping" at 30 cents a square yard. The Attorney General believes that any good road contractor would have been glad to do this work for about 18 cents a square yard. In the first six months, the company did about half its job and was paid some...
...church in North America, and hence presiding prelate of the Cathedral of St. Nicholas, Manhattan. He had with him papers from Russia to prove it. It was in an effort to make clear his position to Platon, the temporary Archbishop, that he had suffered his humiliating contact with the asphalt. Archbishop Platon had simply clapped his hands and shouted in Russian: "Throw him out!" The disgruntled Kedrovsky, a naturalized U. S. citizen, at once filed suit against Archbishop Platon. Thus began an interminable, ludicrous and involved dispute (TIME...
...Leongs, the two tongs concerned in the present outbreak, fought in 1910. In 1912 the nephew of On Leong Mayor of Manhattan's Chinatown was killed by two Chinese, both subsequently electrocuted. In 1922 the head of the Hip Sings choked and fell faceforward upon the asphalt of Pell Street, Manhattan, with a bullet in his heart. Another war flickered briefly last year until it was ended by the efforts of Arbitrator Lee Kue Ying, rich merchant. Last week Ying, presumably of natural causes, perished. It was on the afternoon of his death that the wires from Boston began...