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...last Negro member of the Tennessee Legislature. He graduated from Yale (Class of 1915) with a Phi Beta Kappa, won a lieutenant's commission during the War, got a degree from Columbia University's Law School, has sat in the New York Legislature. Able and up-to-date Republican Rivers promptly adopted a brain trust including Charles E. Mitchell, onetime Minister to Liberia, Oliver Randolph, onetime member of the New Jersey Legislature, and his own brother Dr. Mark E. Rivers, a Republican leader in Harlem...
Flatly denying that any swap had ever been intended, and freely admitting that any Air Ministry official may have in the back of his mind that he might "at some indefinite future date, years ahead" find himself working for Imperial Airways, Sir Christopher cried...
Each velocity dollar is dated with the week of its issue and has 104 spaces to each of which a stamp is to be affixed. Whoever holds the bill for more than a week must buy a 1? stamp from the Alberta Government for each week the certificate is out of circulation and stick it onto his dollar to keep it up-to-date. After two years, when all 104 stamps have been affixed at a total cost of $1.04, the velocity dollar can be turned in at the Alberta Treasury and exchanged for a regular Canadian dollar...
...died of smallpox after "a Bacchanalian party at which a dairymaid was bathed, combed and perfumed, and placed in his bed. . . ." Next morning he fell ill. The incident, says Dr. Kemble, "was not the source of Louis' infection, for a period of some twelve days elapses between the date of contact with smallpox and the appearance of the first signs of illness...
...trying desperately to keep Utilities Power & Light from teetering over the brink of disaster. At one time its debentures sold as low as 22? on the dollar. Nevertheless, Promoter Clarke, who is still Utilities Power & Light's president, managed to scrape together enough cash on every interest date, thus avoid receivership or reorganization...