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...extremists appearing as the representative element is again revealed. Clearly, however, neither white dominance nor Nyasaland's withdrawal from the Federation is the answer. Economically, Nyasaland could not survive alone, for it gets over half its budget from the Rhodesias and its labor surplus relies on the Rhodesian copper industry. Nor would merger with her black and bankrupt neighbor, Tanganyika, help...
Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married Philadelphia Socialite Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., the dashing soldier who subsequently became U.S. envoy to Norway and Poland (and is now adjutant general of the state of Pennsylvania). They, too, were divorced after the war, but still fond of the diplomatic high life, Maggie Biddle set up a Paris...
...Clyde spoke up, sent the Sunday closing bill back to the legislature with a surprising, stinging veto message. Reasons for the veto: i) the bill was "inequitable" to small merchants; 2) through it. big merchants were seeking "to regulate competition"; 3) Utah's rich seven-day-a-week copper mines, not specifically exempted from Sunday closing, might be "seriously affected"; 4) the bill would force such minority religious groups as Seventh-day Adventists (400 in Utah) "to work on their own Sabbath day" (Saturday) or else be limited to a five-day business week. Pleaded George Clyde...
...tuition with a $200 scholarship, Krumb wrote later, "I would not have been a mining engineer." As things turned out, Columbia had good reason to congratulate itself on its openhandedness. Henry Krumb grew rich as an internationally famed mining consultant, and in particular as an authority on low-grade copper ore. He sought to repay his debt in many ways, served as a trustee from 1941-47, and gave some $550,000 over the years to the university...
...copper wire...