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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beaten by California and Notre Dame, Southern California's Trojans were still Pacific Coast Conference champions. To them fell the honor of representing the West in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses in the famed Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. To them also went the privilege of picking their eastern opponent. They took thought, chose the undefeated Pittsburghers...
...trying to get ourselves into such a rarified atmosphere that nobody could live in it with us. . . . We have had perhaps too much of jazz and it seems about time for some one to assume leadership in a movement away from the cacophony of most music of the day. I think we should get back to melody...
...York Curb listed 1,227,392 preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such...
...their injured. To Blue Ridge was sold a large block of Central States Electric at a price considerably below the market. Seller, number of shares and price were not announced. But Blue Ridge assets showed a November appreciation of $12,000,000 and Central States on the day of the sale closed at 28. One method of giving Blue Ridge a $12,000,000 profit would have been to sell it 1,000,000 shares of Central States at 16 (12 points below the market). As to the seller, Harrison Williams' control of Central States and part sponsorship...
...grades. Each morning Ikey Stein brought me roses which he had gathered in the cemetery. Patsy O'Reilly presented me with three battered toothbrushes; his father was a garbage collector. . . . I banged down the top of my desk; I should correct no more deadening papers that day. The tap at my door proved to be Kate. She'd something, she said, she'd like to show me. . . . There were five hundred sheets entitled 'Soul Thoughts...