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...gold. Mr. Campbell had just drawn this bullion from the Federal Reserve Bank in return for gold certificates. Each bar, worth approximately $5,000, had been cast by the U. S. Treasury and bore its stamp and number. Lawyer Campbell arranged for the Chase Bank to act as hired custodian for his bullion...
...wrote, while custodian of enemy property, he had found a pile of packing cases in a German warehouse in the East African lake town of Bukoba. One "was slightly packed with sawdust and had a smaller case inside. This also was very well made and strongly fastened. When I opened this the contents proved to be a native's skull. Whether this was the skull of Mkwawa I cannot say, but very great care had been taken in packing it." He concluded that he did not know what became of the skull, because he left it where...
...different sort of family. Sterling did no retailing hut manufactured a large assortment of patent medicines which it had bought up in the course of years. It made Cascarets, Danderine, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Fletcher's Castoria, Bayer's Aspirin (bought from the Alien Property Custodian in 1919), Mum, California Syrup of Figs, etc. It was evident in the beginning that the marriage between these two parties could never be complete. For Sterling would have lost much of its market if its nationally famed products had been sold only in Rexall and Liggett stores, and conversely United...
Howard Sutherland, onetime Senator from West Virginia, distinguished for seven years as absolutely incorruptible in the very tempting job of U. S. Alien Property Custodian, last week resigned his job to accept the presidency of Fidelity Investment Association (a bond-holding trust selling annuity contracts on instalments to small investors) succeeding in that post former Comptroller of the Currency John William Pole...
...took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy's airship program...