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...brokers advised their clients that the time for profit-taking had come. "With the chance that titanic forces are cannily at play in the bull-ring," said I. Witkin & Co.'s colorful market letter, "we prefer for the time being to be on the sidelines or in the grandstand. Possibly to help a huge and financially powerful long-interest, if our conjectures be correct, to unload upon a heterogeneous and unorganized investing public and manufacturers at large is to court an attack of speculative indigestion. . . ." Gently, then precipitously, cocoa prices fell...
...outstanding divers on the Varsity swimming team, will be out of competition for the rest of the season as the result of a broken left wrist suffered Tuesday night. He received the injury after the Penn basketball game while trying to climb down out of the grandstand. Forbush was rated as the second best diver on the squad by Coach Hal Ulen and his loss will weaken the team in that event...
...Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner Horace Stoneham of the New York Giants planned to turn his baseball park into a wintersports paradise by building a ski-slide from the top of the grandstand to the outfield, installing a toboggan run. As an improvement on snow trains, Saks-Fifth Avenue-which last year installed the first of Manhattan's now numerous indoor department-store ski slides-chartered the S. S. Paris as a "snowboat." Advertisements said it would sail Jan. 16, with...
...attacks on the leadership of John Hamilton, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, by Hamilton Fish, have been for the most part unfair. Mr. Fish has made several abortive attempts to appear the liberal leader of the Republican party, but considering his past record these grandstand plays are absurd. The blame for the Republican defeat cannot be placed on any one man; especially not on Mr. Hamilton. Up to date, no one in the party has shown the vigor, and hard hitting speaking ability of the present chairman, and the Republicans would be taking an unwise step if they accept...
...their sponsors owed $1,600 in back salaries, local businessmen formed a corporation to finance the team. The Packers repaid their benefactors by attracting as many as 15,000 spectators to a single Green Bay game. In 1934, the team had financial difficulties again. A spectator fell off the grandstand and was awarded $5,500 damages. The mutual company with which the Packers were insured went into bankruptcy during the trial. The bankruptcy put the Packers' debt up to $10,000. Green Bay citizens then subscribed $13,000 to keep the team going...