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...month investigation this year, began presenting evidence to a special Federal Grand Jury in Milwaukee last September. The jury is still in session, but A. F. C. members last week were unanimously confident of victory under the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. Said new A. F. C. President Owen Lewis Coon: "I can see the breaking of monopoly ahead in this business, and I can see the breaking up of the business into smaller units, and there may once again be 1,500 independent finance companies...
Indiana's sportsman Governor, Cliff Townsend, had a little airedale pup, which would put Kansas' climbing coon hound Rudd [TIME, April 12] to shame...
Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...
Even after Squire Whiting became the acknowledged boss of Phinizy County, things went on, especially on Hoop Pole Ridge. Little Bas Younger, the current he-coon, got licked in an argument in front of the courthouse, and that night his opponent's house burned down. Squire Whiting was getting ready to turn over the county to his successor, but he wanted things shipshape, so he rode out to Hoop Pole Ridge and shot Little Bas. The inhabitants of the Ridge let Little Bas lie. Said one of them to the heir apparent, "I reckon you air the he-coon...
Other main addresses before the Association, some of which were held at the Faculty Club, included those by Drs. Herbert I. Margolis, Lawrence W. Baker, Carl T. Nelson '28, H. T. E. Hertzberg, Carl Seltzer '29, D. B. Dill, and Carleton S. Coon '25, all of the University...