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Four years later Indians again raided the valley. This time the Black Boys went after the pack trains hotter than ever. Fort Bedford, 30 miles away, answered by wholesale arrests. At dawn a few days later James Smith and 19 Black Boys leaped from behind an embankment before the Fort entrance, streaked through the gates before a dazed sentry could collect his wits, covered the dumbfounded garrison of crack regulars gathered about their morning rum ration. The whole operation required less than two minutes. Eight days later Smith was arrested and put on trial for murder. Following his prompt acquittal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...Those accused by the FTC: A. G. Spalding & Bros., N. Y.; John Wanamaker, Philadelphia; L. A. Young Golf Co.. Detroit; Worthington Ball Co., Elyria, Ohio; Wilson Sporting Goods Co., Chicago; U. S. Rubber Products, N. Y.; Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp., N. Y.; Acushnet Process Co., New Bedford, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Golf Ball Crackdown | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Charles E. Odegaard, Evanston, Illinois (Ph.D. marshal), Francis M. Rogers 1G, New Bedford (A.M. marshal); Law School: Adrian S. Fisher 3L, German-town, Pennsylvania; Divinity School: Clarke M. Cochrane 3Dv. Albany, New York; Dental School: Charles E. Scribner 4Dn, West Medford; Medical School: Joseph R. Frothingham, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 12 Graduate Marshals Picked for Class Day | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

Declared dead. The Duchess of Bedford, 71; "on or since March 22, 1937"; in London. She seemingly perished in the North Sea while on a pleasure flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 7, 1937 | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...19th-Century industrial titans, Mr. Rockefeller outlived them all. Hill. Harriman, Morgan, Frick, Carnegie carved their careers in the middle Rockefeller years. Mr. Rockefeller never heard of Henry Ford until his late 60s. The great group of Rockefeller partners and executives-Flagler, Rogers, Andrews, Brewster, Pratt, Archbold, Bedford, Moffett- has been gone for years.* But at no time by either word or gesture did Rockefeller ever indicate any regret for anything he ever did. Apparently there was a sharp and impenetrable wall between his conceptions of business and private morality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Last Titan | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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