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Suspended. The license of Narragansett Park racetrack, with a contingent order that Owner Walter E. O'Hara be removed as managing director before Sept. 30; by the Rhode Island State Racing Commission; in Providence. This culminates the longtime feud between Horseman O'Hara and Rhode Island's Governor Robert E. Quinn (TIME, Sept. 20). "Narragansett," said Owner O'Hara, "will not open next season...
...this was raw material for a very pretty business feud, but President Shaughnessy declined to make it into a finished product. He kept his head, kept his own counsel and kept Transamerica on the board through a temporary technicality. By last week this breathing spell had cooled everybody off. The Exchange gracefully came down off its high horse, "requested" the listing; "A. P." as gracefully agreed. President Shaughnessy remained in office and San Francisco's brokers strode down Nob Hill jauntily once more...
Boiling up menacingly was the year-old feud between one of the Commission's three Republican members, New York's George Henry Payne, and Cincinnati Radioman Powel Crosley Jr. over the 500,000-watt experimental permit granted three and a half years ago by the Commission to Crosley-operated WLW. Last year Commissioner Payne, although he is technically assigned to the Commissioner's telegraph division, wrote Mr. Crosley asking whether WLW was not taking advantage of its "experimental" status as the most powerful broadcaster in the U. S. to reap unusual commercial profits, and demanding a balance...
...merely a family feud which last week resulted in the death of General Sidki, but his assassin, Abdulla Ibrahim, a relative of the murdered Defense Minister, unwittingly served the cause of the British. For General Sidki's rule imperiled Britain's dominance over young King Ghazi whose kingdom lies on Britain's air route to the East, and Sidki's taking off made the Orient safer for the King Emperor George...
...adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...