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Sued for Divorce. Francis C. Eustis Hitchcock, Manhattan broker's clerk, younger brother of No. 1 U. S. Poloist Thomas Hitchcock Jr.; by Mary Atwell Hitchcock, daughter of a Manhattan contractor; in Newburgh. N.Y. Charge: misconduct...
...road outside Faribault, Minn., one night last week Walter Magee, St. Paul contractor, saw automobile headlights blink four times. He stopped his car, lifted out two cardboard boxes full of money and drove off leaving them in the middle of the highway. To the stack of cash was attached a note...
...June 8, 1872, which provides that "No contract for carrying the mail shall be made with any person who has entered or proposed to enter into any combination to prevent the making of any bid for carrying the mail," and "if any person so offending is a contractor for carrying the mail, his contract may be annulled." Since representatives of every company carrying the air mail were at these conferences, Mr. Farley had no choice in the matter; under the law he was required to annull the contracts, and in doing this he was merely performing his legal duty...
...make ready for the baptismal service which he was to conduct. When he stepped into the pool he offered a most impressive dedicatory prayer and one at a time baptised two young ladies, the first retiring before the second came. The third candidate was James E. Dean, an electrical contractor of Easton, and just as Pastor Brookshire reached up his right hand to assist Dean into the pool, he fell back into the water, dead. Dean reached into the water for him, got him up on the pulpit where every effort was made to revive him, the Rescue Crew...
...disposal, he had, within ten weeks, allocated about $1,400,000,000. But allocations hire no workers. Public agencies first have to sign loan agreements with the Government before they see a cent of cash. Then they have to survey their project again, advertise for bids, pick a contractor. The contractor, in turn, has to order his materials, assemble work crews. This routine explains why the flow of public works cash was still only an insignificant trickle last week and why, despite hopeful headlines, the country still has to wait weeks, perhaps months, to feel the full effects of this...