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Born into a family of nine children at Milton Junction, Wis. 46 years ago. Banker Crowley got his start as a grocery clerk in nearby Madison, rose to a partnership in a wholesale paper house, finally became president of the Bank of Wisconsin. After his bank was absorbed by the Wisconsin Bankshares Corp., he retired to public life. For his good works in the Catholic Church he was knighted and awarded the Cross of St. Gregory by Pope Pius XI. He was confidential adviser to Governor Schmedeman when the Governor was Madison's mayor, followed him into the capitol...
There were ten other deaths on CWA projects last week, nine of them in Colorado. Near Grand Junction, a canyon road gang was clearing away debris after a dynamite blast. A cliff came tumbling down on the road, buried six workers, hurled three to the bottom of a canyon 300 feet below...
...mayor, he quit Harvard to enter the brokerage business, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago Union Stock Yards. He had a hand in building up Bessemer &; Lake Erie, which was sold to U. S. Steel Corp. At one time or another...
...eventually built, the railway not only spanned North Manchuria, but branched off from the Russian-built junction, Harbin, to traverse South Manchuria and end at Port Arthur. That fatal branch, the great Imperial Russian Minister, Count Witte, later admitted, largely provoked the Russo-Japanese war. Japan, when she had whipped the Russians, seized their southern branch from Port Arthur as far up as Changchun (140 miles below Harbin) and made it her own great, imperial iron road, the Japanese South Manchuria Railway...
...followed the [Biblical] in-junction," interposed Senator Logan of Kentucky. "He was a stranger and you took...