Word: madison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Reed Kirkpatrick, former Yale All-American end and one of Yale's all-time greats, and at present president of the Madison Square Garden Corporation, will also speak...
...contestants in what is one of the most unprofitable as well as one of the riskiest of sports, rodeo cowboys average about $3,000 a year in prize money, spend most of it on traveling expenses, clothes, entry fees, hospital bills. Few, therefore, can afford to pass up the Madison Square Garden rodeo, which offers the season's biggest total prize money ($38,000), augmented this year by the entry fees in all events...
...spring of 1936 Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings announced that the Department of Justice would investigate complaints of price-fixing. Presently a Federal grand jury began sitting in Madison, chosen because Wisconsin is the most centrally located of the ten States in question, because all but two of the indicted companies do business there. A year ago having examined some 18 tons of documents and endured sweltering heat for the longest period any Federal grand jury has ever sat in a Department of Justice case, the jury charged the defendants with price-fixing by: 1) operating two buying pools...
Cool on the banks of piney Lake Mendota rests the quiet city of Madison, centre of a rich dairy and farming area, home of Wisconsin's State capitol and State university. Last week, though no petroleum has ever been found there, Madison became also the temporary capital of the U. S. oil industry. In the biggest trust-busting case since the famed dissolution of Standard Oil, the Federal Government last week brought to trial in Madison 18 major U. S. oil companies, five of their subsidiaries, three oil trade journals and 57 ranking oilmen.* Under the Sherman Anti-Trust...
...situation from the oilman's point of view was the remark of one executive: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mamma for doing something papa told him to do. ..." Last week, when trial finally got under way on the second floor of Madison's eight-year-old Federal building, it was obvious that this would be the major line of defense...