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...MILLION CUSTOMERS-Carl Crow-Harper...
When their new Governor Lloyd Crow Stark promised them a "businesslike administration" last November, Missourians felt that a good place to begin businesslike reforms was in the marketing of State bonds. In 1934 Missouri voters authorized a $10,000,000 issue of building bonds for the rehabilitation of prisons and charitable institutions. Few months later the first $2,000,000 worth were sold to the highest bidder among six syndicates, including most of the top-flight bond houses in the U. S. The next $2,000,000 lot, however, was not opened to public bidding but sold privately in March...
...pitchers, pitching not over three innings each, the Nationals needed six. The Americans started with Vernon ("Lefty") Gomez of the Yankees. who hurled three scoreless innings. The Nationals started with Jerome Herman ("Dizzy") Dean, who reveled in striking out Lou Gehrig in the first inning. Gehrig made Dean eat crow in the third inning by smashing a home run, scoring his teammate Joe Di Maggio ahead...
...control the securities of Northern Pacific and Great Northern Railways. By a 5-to-4 decision, the holding company was found in restraint of trade, its control of the two railroads was disestablished. Last week, with 23,063 shares of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and 28,557 shares of Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. Ltd. in its portfolio, Northern Securities board of directors proposed that the oldest railroad holding company be dissolved...
...Negro press rejoiced when Congressman Mitchell filed his suit. Arthur W. Mitchell was out to end the iniquitous Jim Crow system, they crowed in their lead stories. But when newshawks talked to him in Washington they found out differently. His complaint, it seemed, was not with the South's segregation laws, but with the roads that provide inferior accommodations for segregated Negroes when the laws specify equal accommodations. Indeed, he said, he could find no fault with some of the roads that do business in the South...