Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...summary: HARVARD YALE cotton, No. 1 No. 1. Wallop Burnett Ferguson White, No. 2 No, 2. Phipps Clark, No. 3 No, Baldwin...
Score, Harvard 18 1-2, Yale 3 1-2, Goals, Clark 9, White 7, Burnett 2, Cotton, Phipps 2, Baldwin 2. Fouls, Harvard, Yale, Time, Four Chukkers of 7 1-2 minutes each. Referee, J. Walsh, Timer, J. T. Norton...
...suddenly ordered Leonor Fresnel Loree to explain why his railroad mergers proceedings in the Southwest were not a violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust law. Mr. Loree had had his Kansas City Southern R. R. buy control of the larger Missouri-Kansas-Texas ("Katy") and the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt"), presuming that he was protected by the 1920 Transportation Act of Congress which encouraged the railroads to unify regional systems. Railroad men realized that the I. C. C.'s present gesture towards Mergerer Loree may be an effort to rub away the conflicts between the Clayton Anti-Trust...
...pound Mayor Walker was standing on a reviewing platform in New Orleans with 300-pound Mayor Arthur O'Keefe. They were watching white-robed Negroes lead mules through the streets. The mules were attached to creaking floats filled with masked and strangely costumed debutantes, bankers, brokers and cotton kings. Behind the masks were eyes that had an unmistakable champagne glitter, for New Orleans was celebrating the pre-Lenten festival that seven roistering French students began a century...
...cigar box and saturated cotton with a teacupful of chloroform and put that in there with him, and then placed a pound weight on the box lid. The next morning Mr. Toad was gone. He had pulled a Houdini during the night and disappeared...