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Pitting its full strength against an admittedly strong but vastly overrated Tiger combine, the highly touted Harvard bandsmen invade Palmer Stadium today for their annual clash with the Nassau trumpeteers, in an engagement which marks the first Jungleland appearance of the Crimson musicians since their break with Princeton's harmony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band in Fine Shape Today For Title Match With Tiger | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

Banker Kahn won his first fame at 34 by financing Edward H. Harriman in the $65,000,000 corner in Northern Pacific in 1901, pitting his skill and strength against J. P. Morgan and James J. Hill. Art Patron Kahn sank his profits into the Metropolitan Opera Company of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Death At No. 52 | 4/9/1934 | See Source »

What provoked that remark was Col. Lindbergh's telegram to President Roosevelt protesting the domestic airmail contract cancellations (TIME, Feb. 19). The $250,000 referred to was reputedly a gift from Transcontinental Air Transport to the flying Colonel in 1928. Col. Lindbergh was popularly supposed to have amassed a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Lindbergh's Income | 2/26/1934 | See Source »

Pitting their strength against Canada's best, the University mermen will swim tonight against a combined McGill and Toronto team in Harvard's first international swimming meet. The opening event will be run off at 8 o'clock in the pool of the Indoor Athletic Building.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWIMMERS OPPOSE McGILL--TORONTO IN MEET TONIGHT | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Remington Arms Co., Inc., older than Winchester by nearly half a century, always its peer. The first Remington rifle was made by Eliphalet Remington in 1816. He died in 1861, weakened by the strain of upping production for the Civil War (then famed gun: the Harper's Ferry musket). His...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Winchester & Western | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

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