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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most excited betters had put their money on Perifox (son of Gallant Fox), which William Woodward hoped would prove the second U. S.-bred horse to win the Derby, or Lord Astor's Cash Book or the French colt Le Ksar. Still confident was the round, brown Aga Khan, spiritual leader of 60,000,000 Moslems, that this year his one entry would outrun the pack to give him three Derby victories in a row. Queen Elizabeth, however, bet ?1 on Mid-Day Sun, quoted at 100-to-7. Mid-Day Sun's best previous performance had been...
Last week The Nation's difference with its backer was neatly resolved. With an all-time high of 43,000 readers, The Nation has become selfsupporting, so Banker Wertheim felt free to sell it to Editor Kirchwey for " a substantial cash consideration...
George Pepperdine College will open Sept. 20 as a four-year, co-educational liberal arts school with a $1,000,000 endowment, of which Mr. Pepperdine and National Cash Register's Clarence Shattuck will be among the chief trustees. As his college grows, Mr. Pepperdine plans to assign it further income from his approximately six-year-old George Pepperdine Foundation, a philanthropic corporation which holds an unspecified amount of securities and California real estate, including Hollywood's swank Ravenswood Apartments where Mae West is a tenant...
...Treasury in Washington 1?as his bid for the Ned's Point Lighthouse and an adjoining 4-acre tract at Mattapoisett which will be sold by the Government to the highest bidder. From the National Military Home in Dayton, Ohio, Veteran E. R. Coran promptly bid $4.98 in cash "and one-fifth of my life in service in any capacity that the Government may choose to consume...
BILLIONS FOR DEFENSE-William T. Stone and Ryllis Alexander Goslin-Foreign Policy Association (35?). Presenting in 46 pages the cold-chill, cold-cash headline facts on the world armaments race-with special advice...