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...keep his hands off his property. Bing is now the major stockholder in the profitable little Del Mar race track, owns a 100-acre breeding ranch near the track, some 75 horses, and enough ready cash to pay a $377,000 income...
...parlay" on the bears' porridge. Every few months he asks over his old musician friends-Manny Klein, Lennie Hayton, Joe Venuti, and whoever happens to be in town-for a jam session in his large rumpus room. Summers he packs the family off to the ranch near Del Mar...
Although some bankers think of their trouble as beginning with the New Deal, it goes back much farther. In 1923 U. S. commercial banks had more than half their active funds in commercial loans. Then corporations took to financing them selves in the hungry stock and bond mar kets instead of at the banks. By 1929 the banks had only 39% of their funds in commercial loans; it was chiefly their volume of brokers' loans that gave them the appearance of great prosperity. What the corporate financing of the '20s started, the New Deal finished. The Treasury...
After all, it is more than 30 years now since Jack Johnson pounded Jim Jeffries to his knees under a scorching Reno sun, and thereby marred the greatest record in the history of the heavyweight game. . . . Jeff had beaten the titans of his era-men who would have ranked as titans in any era-fighters like Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey. And beaten them each, not once, but twice, before retiring as undefeated champion-only to be lured back into the ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation...
HANOVER, N. H., Mar. 5-In one of the highest scoring league games of the season the Dartmouth basketball team defeated a plucky Harvard quintet tonight 63 to 47 before a capacity audience at the Alumni Gymnasium...