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...this end, some of Wall Street's ablest have exerted themselves through four years of financial diplomacy. The debenture holders' protective committee, headed by Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, formed only a month after Kreuger's suicide, entered a race to find assets where it was generally believed that no assets existed. A Committee of Investigation appointed by the Swedish Government early reported: "Our examination has reached the point where we can state definitely that there will be little, if anything, for distribution to unsecured creditors...
...onetime Laborite leader. In Philadelphia arrived two birds named Paul Revere and Betsy Ross. One fluttered aimlessly around City Hall before it was captured, handed to Mayor Samuel Davis Wilson, who held it in one hand while with the other he bonged the Liberty Bell 19 times with a mallet. In Manhattan, in El Paso, in Phoenix and elsewhere, pigeons were released to fly somewhere else. In Miles City, Mont, a pigeon-fancier named Walter Dyba, who had shipped four birds to Washington, waited for one of them to make a record flight home. Said Mrs. Dyba...
Captain Eddie Gerry stole the scoring honors of the night by pushing in six markers with his mallet, while Skiddy von Stade tallied the other five Crimson points. Townsend Winmill had his hands full keeping the Army sharp-shooters from running up the score and so did not have a chance to enter the scoring ranks himself...
Hand, who graduated magna cum laude, received both the A.M. degree and his Bachelor of Laws in 1894. He began practice in New York the next year, and joined the firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, and Colt. Later he organized his own firm and practiced until 1914. In that year he was appointed a Judge of the United States District Court by President Wilson...
Luck was with the Crimson in the early part of the match, getting three unearned goals: one from the mallet of an opponent and two from handicap. Going into the final period leading 8 1/2-6 the Crimson team appeared to have the game safely in hand, but excellent play on the part of the Connewood trio, aided by two wilful Crimson ponies, turned the tide. Gerry, Von Stade, and Winmill played for the Crimson...