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...commission in their sale. But who would be tapped, what commission would be paid, how rapidly the first block of equities would be sold, few in Wall Street knew, if any knew at all. Mr. Gifford was as hard to find as a sliced brassie shot on a Scottish moor. In Manhattan for a month before his appointment was announced, he had been seen by partners of J. P. Morgan & Co., few others...
...more than a day. Two main lines to Scotland did not function for days. Viscount Home, chairman of Great Westtern Railway, and 300 other passengers spent two days and a night in cold, bedless coaches. Up in Scotland 400 travelers were stranded at isolated Crawford, on Beattock Moor, in Lanarkshire. An inn proprietor put them up, rationed her small supply of food, then four days later frantically telephoned an S O S to Glasgow: "We are absolutely starving...
...confused with Manhattan's Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, second in command in the U. S. Buchmanite movement...
...failing so, yet that I put the Moor...
...remembered that the world's greatest dramatist had had something to say on the subject. Something world famous, in fact; something probably never equalled in the realm of dramatic expression. Vag decided to hear Professor Theodore J. Spencer at 11 o'clock today in Harvard 5, on "Othello, Moor of Venice...