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...smaller, immediate question is nearer solution. Due to the peculiarities of Wisconsin law, Mr. LaFollette's successor must be elected, not appointed. The suggested candidates include Governor Elaine of Wisconsin, Attorney General Eckern of that state (rivals), Mrs. LaFollette. With their leader dead and their ranks split with dissention, the LaFollettians must heal their quarrels, or Lenroot and the regular Republicans will regain the ground which LaFollette took...
Governor J. Daugaard Jensen of Greenland: "I believe he used so much petrol that he was unable to return to his starting place and therefore flew as far as possible toward Cape Columbia [Ellesmere Land, about 250 miles nearer the Pole than Spitzbergen...
...tell the remarkable story of the bank's progress and growth under Mr. George F. Baker's long and skilful guidance. The First National is one of the largest financial institutions in the country, and also one of the most thoroughly undercapitalized. Its dividends have long climbed nearer and nearer to par value of its shares. Now, by declaring a 25% quarterly dividend, the First National has been put, temporarily at least, on a 100% dividend basis, where disbursements to stockholders are each year equal to the entire nominal capitalization of the institution. As a result, while...
...railroad domain, the Van Sweringens advanced nearer the reali- zation of the Greater Nickel Plate System (TIME, July 7, Aug. 11, 18. Apr. 6) by securing assent to their leasing terms for the Chesapeake & Ohio by a majority of the latter's stockholders. Wilson & Co. (TIME, Sept. 8) and the St. Paul Railroad (TIME, Mar. 23, 30) are being cut down and revamped, preparatory to setting them up in business again on their own feet...
...proposed demolition of the rotunda in Harvard Square drew one stop nearer realization, it was announced recently, when the proposal was heard by the State Legislature Committee on Ways and Means...