Word: gate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Subpoenaed last week by the Bureau of Securities of the N. Y. State Attorney General's office was Edward J. Harrison, a U. S. financier whose calling cards gave his address as "St. James Court, Buckingham Gate, S. W. I." Mr. Harrison was already under Federal indictment for flagrantly misrepresenting the assets of a certain Big Wedge Gold Mining Co., of California. This time his promotion of "The London Curb Exchange, Ltd." had aroused suspicion. Mr. Harrison, free under bond, had been around New York for some time trying to sell stock in this enterprise. The royal neighborhood...
...Advocate has issued a critique of the college's athletic difficulties that clarions the need for a permanent endowment policy. It is true that Harvard has climbed few of the stairs leading toward the goal of an endowment fund large enough to divorce the sports program from dependence on gate receipts. If minor sports are permanently to be retained, and if a successful intra-mural program is to be developed, President Conant must propagate with all his energies the endowment ideal among the alumni, and it is to be hoped that not a few benevolent philanthropists will be uncovered...
...although the president may be able to induce the more opulent and generous alumni to contribute to an endowment fund for athletics, it seems evident that gate receipts, for some time at least, will remain the backbone of the H.A.A.'s financial set-up. For collecting the several million dollars that would be needed to put the whole athletic program on a self-sustaining basis is not just a simple day's work, and may not be accomplished before years have gone...
Where California's Coastal Range marches down to the sea at the Golden Gate, one of the most spectacular cities in the U. S. sits upon immense hills. But though these pup mountains give San Francisco many a gorgeous view, they long retarded her development. Horses cannot pull wagons up the steep streets, only the most vigorous people care to walk them, automobiles must go into first gear to get up, into second to get down. The man who cracked this tough civic nut was a wire manufacturer named Andrew S. Hallidie, who in 1873 invented the cable...
When erstwhile "Public Rat No. 1'' Merle Vandenbush robbed the Northern Westchester Bank in Katonah, N. Y. (pop. 1.500) last February, he put three employes and two customers behind the open grill gate of the vault. Two wrecks later, shortly before the captured Vandenbush was sentenced to Sing Sing, another gang held up the bank, again put staff and customers in the vault. Had the robbers in either case closed the vault's steel door on their victims, they would have suffocated. Last week, forehanded President Edward Fielder had the vault of his well-rifled bank fitted...