Word: kans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Samuel J. Tilden Straus Jr., 19, Harvard junior, son of Board Chairman Straus of S. W. Straus & Co. and S. W. Straus Investing Corp., Chicago; of injuries sustained in an automobile accident; near Dodge City, Kan. Accompanied by two other Harvardmen, he was on his way to Arizona for summer vacation when three tires blew out simultaneously...
...they would split future profits. He was six months slow in making good his boast, but the friends decided that 100%, in 18 months was fair enough. Now J. Edward Jones has royalties covering some 250,000 acres of oil land. He has offices in Manhattan, Boston, Tulsa, Independence, Kan., and Dresden, Germany. Last week he merged seven of his royalty companies into Consolidated American Royalty Corp. with holdings worth $8,000,000 which last year produced $1,402,000 gross revenue. Mr. Jones will be the company's president. Its chairman will be Frank Haskell, former president...
...orations. Second place was won by Ever Louise Conner, 16, of Chicago, only girl in the final contest, who it was said might have won first place had she not exceeded the time limit and been stopped by a whistle blast. Winner was Robert Gibson Rayburn, 16, of Newton, Kan. Tall, redhaired, Orator Rayburn spoke in a low. quiet voice. Excerpt from his oration: "The ink on the parchment where the Constitution has been engrossed for years is faded, but if it has been written in letters of living light, this country will march on through the ages, with...
...known to his father-in-law as Richard F. White but in Mapleton, Kan., a Thomas H. Camp was last reported there when his mother passed away and he was a pallbearer. He was 22 years old then...
Charles Gleason Jr., 12, of Newton, Kan., who is as inquisitive as a young fox terrier, never gets lost. As soon as he opens his eyes a morning, he automatically recognizes compass points. All day long thereafter he knows exactly where he is. He is as clever and undeliberating as any bird or animal when it comes to homing...