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Unlike U. S. racetracks, the Epsom course is not flat. For a half-mile it runs uphill 100 feet till it reaches Tattenham Corner, slopes downhill to a level stretch, then rises at the finish. Tattenham Cor- ner, named after a manor house which mysteriously disappeared, is a dangerous hairpin turn with a sharp downdrop. At the start of the race, Hyperion's jockey, Tommy Weston, let his stablemate Thrapston take the lead. On Thrapston was Steve Donoghue, winner of six derbies, the oldtimer who rode Papyrus in his match race against Zev in the U. S. ten years...
...gigantic luminous cross against a snow-clad mountain. He fell on his knees, prayed. After making his fortune in gold, he returned to Chicago, took up social reform. A pallid-faced, burning-eyed young zealot, he crusaded up & down Halsted and West Madison Streets against vice, liquor, crime, cor ruption...
...Paul Bacon. Corrupt city government precipitation two innocent younsters into prison, the girl to be held for life the boy to the hanged. There are harrowing days of suspense while the two look for evidences to clear them. There are prison walls in Hollywood's best décor. Shadows of the gallows darken the screen, as the lovers say their rather affecting farewells and no negro atone crusher bursts out into "Deep River," as this reviewer feared...
...debt program. To U. S. investors, large and small, have been sold some $15,000,000,000 in foreign securities which have depreciated in value to about $12,000,000,000. Senator Johnson wanted know: Who issued these foreign securities in the U. S.? What was their cor mission? Did they retain any for ther selves or dump them all on the public? What political dickering was behind each issue? How much did worthless foreign bonds have to do with bank failures? The Senate Finance Committee prepared answer these questions by summoning ranking officers of the following big banking houses...
...Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral, '04; Chief of Naval Staff. '05; Supreme War Councillor, '09; Admiral of Fleet in 'i 2. Attended King George's Cor- onation on the suite of Prince Higashi-Fushimi; was at a time Lord Tutor to the Crown Prince (Emperor Taisho). Address: Koj. Kamirokuban-cho, Tokyo...