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...expenses." Promotion of other oil and mining companies brought his capital up to $4,000,000 in 1914. From this high point when he stopped private work, his fortune began to decline. He lived expensively, generously during the War and as Secretary of Commerce. He built fine homes in Palo Alto and Washington. In 1920 he dropped $300,000 on the Washington Herald, when he was thinking about the Democratic Presidential nomination. To Leland Stanford he contributed $150,000 for a War library. Other investments went bad. Concludes FORTUNE: "Mr. Hoover's present holdings would not realize...
...Winner of third place on the hop, step & jump team at the final U. S. trials in Palo Alto last fortnight was Levi Casey of the Los Angeles A. C. Last week the American Olympic Committee barred Hopper Casey from the U. S. team for "reasons best known to the Olympic Committee and the athlete himself." In his place they chose Sol ("Happy") Furth, hop, step & jumper of the Millrose A. C. On his way home to Gardiner, Maine, happy Hopper Furth did not learn of his selection till he arrived. He wired the Olympic Committee for funds, promptly started...
...Prognosticator Van Nice see p. 19 for July 16 returns at Palo Alto...
...Palo Alto. When he beat Stanford's Ben Eastman in a quarter-mile race three weeks ago, stocky little William Arthur Carr of the University of Pennsylvania failed to oblige Californians by sharing their amazement. "I know I can run 47 sec. again," said he, "but I don't know what Eastman will do the next time." In the final track & field trials at Palo Alto, Calif, last week. Carr had his chance to find out what Eastman would do at 400 metres. Carr won a fast heat. Eastman won a slow one. In the final, Carr...
...Olympic Team when he broke the world's record for a mile last winter. It looked as though Venzke would surely be what U. S. Olympic teams have lacked since 1912-a runner good enough to win at 1,500 metres - until he went to Palo Alto last week...