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Frank A. Vanderlip, who a few week's ago was harshly censured for the scandals which he repeated "as rumors and not as facts," has turned himself into a promotor of investigations. He went to Washington in carrying on his work, and there spoke forth in praise of the great Senate investigations, saying...
...States Oil stock on the New York Curb and elsewhere recently, has created much comment. The sponsor for the stock, C. M. Haskell, was formerly Governor of Oklahoma; retiring from political life in 1922, he became personal attorney for Harry F. Sinclair, and still later, an oil operator and promotor of evident wealth. Southern States Oil is only one of several so-called "Haskell oil companies...
Nevertheless Promotor Rickard said: " Firpo, in my mind, is the outstanding challenger for Dempsey's title right now. He impresses me as another Jim Jeffries?a better man than Jeffries was at a corresponding period in his ring career, for Firpo is stronger than Jeff and hits harder...