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...Find. Geologists first stumbled on traces of iron around Steep Rock Lake, 40 miles north of the Minnesota border, in 1891. In the early 1900s, Harvard Geologist H. L. Smyth decided the main deposit might be under the lake itself. In 1930, Julian G. Cross, an Ontario prospector, poked around the site, came away sure he had something...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson, Chicago's late three-time showman-mayor, who cached some $1,500,000 in safe-deposit boxes which were undiscovered until his death (TIME, March 27), was claimed as a relative by scores of Thompsons. One Wisconsin claimant asked for $20,000 because Big Bill had promised to remember him for once saving his life by pressing a dime under Big Bill's nose to stop its bleeding...
This week Maximiliano Hernandez Martinez conferred with his anxious cabinet. Twelve years, five months after he seized power, the Dictator agreed to "deposit the Presidency" in the hands of others...
William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson's widow, at the opening of the onetime Chicago mayor's safe-deposit boxes, fainted as highly compressed wads of $20, $50, $100 and $1,000 bills sprang out. His closer chums guessed that Thompson, a son-of-wealth, had accumulated some $3-to-4,000,000 before he became mayor. But his estate was preliminarily evaluated at only $150,000. His safe-deposit box hoard to date...
...Freshmen and transfer students should also deposit their books with the Bursar before March 3. Students are reminded that it is unlawful to use these books while taking meals in the House dining halls. If this regulation is not complied with, the University will have to exclude those students failing to turn in their books from the dining halls...