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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foremost of the deals Terry, Manager of the New York Giants, had in mind was purchase of Zeke Bonura, first baseman for the Washington Senators. Six American League clubs had waived the $7,500 price on Bonura. The Giants' manager was expected to offer Bonura a contract if Detroit, the seventh American League club, waives its claim...
...croaker was President Wendell Lewis Willkie of $1,000,000,000 Commonwealth & Southern Corp. A shaggy lawyer with a sharp tongue, Wendell Willkie has not only shepherded his colleagues through their court battles but has maintained a spectacular standing offer to sell vast C. & S. outright to the Government before it is destroyed piecemeal. Last week Mr. Willkie was again yanked to Washington by a House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley...
...picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that PWAdministrator Harold Ickes was the only...
...five optional dives used in a meet offer a larger repertoire, there being several new optionals of the "Flying" variety--all of which begin with a swan, then turn into something else. Captain Rusty Greenhood, league champion, Chet Sagenkahn, George Dana, and a host of Sophomore aspirants are now practicing these new methods of getting into the water...
...This offer was made with the provision that each scholarship be supplemented by contributions for living expenses to an amount equivalent to $500 raised by the Undergraduate Committee. Toward its own obligation under this proposal, the University has accepted $5000 from the Elizabeth Glendower Evans Fund...