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Like Thomas Alva Edison and many another man of destiny, one Thomas Eugene Mitten began his career in the U. S. as a telegraph operator. He had come from that peaceful county of Sussex, England, and he is now the operator of the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. and various motorbus, taxicab, and air lines valued at an odd half billion dollars...
...with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
...plaid bathrobe. These latter were dispensed with and the pasting began. Before the first round was over Mr. Berlenbach discovered that the 15 1/2 lb. he had given away were coming back to him with a vengeance. Most of these pounds seemed to be in Mr. Risko's left mitten. Toward the end of the first round the knowledge of how much weight he had given away came to Mr. Berlenbach so forcibly that he rested pensively on the floor for four seconds...
...high stage of development and if they show the same form that they exhibited on Wednesday against the strong Springfield Freshmen they should be able to meet any unexpected attack that the Marion team may furnish. HARVARD 1925 TABOR ACADEMY Bunting, r.f. l.g., Gedsten Scully, l.f. r.g., Mitten King, c. c., Shaniman Samborski, r.g. l.f., Malcolm Quivey, l.g. r.f., Alden
Highlands pitched a strong, hard game, giving only two men bases on balls. Once or twice he seemed to lose control of the ball, but only once or twice. Upton failed to hold him at all, evidently being bothered by his new stiff mitten. Besides this, moreover, Upton was very slow in throwing to bases, losing several good chances just by holding the ball too long. At third Cook was not quite as good as usual making a couple of very wild throws to first...