Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...United Gas Improvement and Public Service of New Jersey (its subsidiary) are both Mellon-controlled. . . ." The statements in this quotation are 100% erroneous. Public Service Corporation of New Jersey is not a subsidiary of the United Gas Improvement Company. It is true that the latter company has been for many years a substantial minority stockholders of Public Service-its proportion of voting strength at the present time amounting to 25.1%. Neither the United Gas Improvement Company nor Public Service Corporation of New Jersey are "Mellon-controlled." The so-called "Mellon interests" have no holding-of Public Service whatever...
Because young Cohen is the son of a wealthy father in New York and because that father has no sympathy with the economic theories of his son, the latter's sensational acts during the past week or more in the advocacy of his political principles has been "played up" by the newspapers of this section to the extent of several columns...
...which the Student Council collects annually from the pledges made at registration time, one third goes directly to the Phillips Brooks House, one third remains for the expenses of the Council, miscellaneous purposes, and donations to organized charity. It is to aid in intelligent disposal of this latter sum that it has been decided to employ the assistance of the officers of the Brooks Association...
...Scott. After elaborate efforts of his backers to establish him as ferocious, Victorio Mario Campolo, Argentine, stuck his thumb into the eye of English heavyweight Phil Scott in Manhattan. Until then Scott had been winning. Closing his hurt eye, he asked the referee to disqualify Campolo but the latter, misunderstanding his wink, told him indignantly to go on. Through that round, which was the ninth, and one more, Scott continued pushing and shoving sleepy Campolo, effectively enough to win the decision. He must now be considered a rival of Schmeling, Sharkey...
...forward passes. Having been stopped dead on the one yard line in the opening period, the schoolboys early in the second canto, worked back to the 35-yard stripe. Here two passes, Brown to Kimball and Keesling to Broaca coupled with a seven yard run by the latter put the pigskin across the goal. Harvard worked some pretty laterals in the fourth period but could not get beyond the 22-yard stripe...