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...Biggest sourdough storyteller was the Reunion's retiring president, Michael Ambrose Mahoney of Ottawa, Ont., who flew to Portland in a checkered jacket. Big Mike Mahoney, who is supposed to have retired with $250,000 in his poke, spends most of his time at luncheons and banquets reciting Poet Robert W. Service's doleful ballads Dangerous Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee. According to Mr. Mahoney, he was present, along with Poet Service, when a crazed engineer named Madden burst into the Dominion saloon at Dawson and shot Gambler McGrew for running away with his wife...
...biggest value to the Senate is as an acute critic, rapid analyst of legislation...
Sudetens Scared? Meanwhile, local bigwigs of the Sudeten German Party were reported from Czechoslovakia as be ginning to show signs of fear lest they be thrust aside by Nazis from Germany, much as in Vienna the Austrian Nazis have lost all the biggest plums to German Nazis. Supplementing cables to this effect was a statement by pro-Czech Chairman George Boochever of the American-Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, who stepped off the Dutch liner Nieuw Amster dam in Manhattan. "In my talks with Sudeten Germans," said Mr. Boochever, "I gained the impression that they had no real wish...
...down for service in the Far East and that the number of formidable Dornier flying boats in The Netherlands Indies Naval Air Service was increased to 42. And last month when the U. S. Department of State reported on U. S. shipments of war materials to foreign nations, the biggest shipments, $4,060,073 in June, proved to be to The Netherlands Indies...
...issue of Lone Star Gas Corp. 15-year, 3½% debentures, which sold at a premium of 1⅞ (formal price was 102). Week's only industrial issue was $10,000,000 in Crucible Steel 3½% debentures. Like the year's two biggest industrial loans (U. S. Steel's $100,000,000 issue in June, Standard Oil's $85,000,000 issues in July), part of Crucible Steel's new money will be spent on plant improvements. All told, the week's Wall Street financing reached $72,762,000, compared...