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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed Texas ("Texaco") Co. Just as the big 1926 issue of $120,000,000 of 5% Standard Oil Co. of N. J. bonds was oversubscribed immediately, so last week's Texas offering was sold between its release in the late afternoon and 10 o'clock the next morning...
...Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped a $3,000 brooch, received it back from an honest finder, came next day without jewels. . . . All these things and more happened last week because in Chicago, and then in Philadelphia, the Chicago Cubs played the Philadelphia Athletics for "the baseball championship of the world...
...Manhattan, two kittens gambolled around a gas jet, turned it on. Mrs. Mary Kane, 67, waitress, asleep in the next room, was asphyxiated. So were the kittens. Emergency pulmotormen revived the kittens, could not revive Mrs. Kane...
Softly, stealthily four unknowns stole into independent headquarters, purloined the remaining propaganda. Next day Boss Granata caused four arrests, subsequently dropping charges when he failed to identify the thieves. His ticket was swamped, four to one. But he had the satisfaction of seeing all the elected candidates disqualified by the student administrative council "because of the recent disgraceful episodes occurring in connection with the class elections...
During the next dozen years Argentina's name grew big in Europe and again last year she was persuaded to come to the U. S., ostensibly for her debut. This time managerial circumstances were different and she herself had grown artistically. She became a sensation...