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Past the finish line the packets steamed, engines wide open, passengers hullaba-looing. Spectators on the banks were still disputing the result when the ships, carried far upstream by their momentum, returned. The judges declared the Tom Greene had won by a few feet, repeating the performance of its sister ship the Chris Greene which defeated the Betsy Ann in last year's first revival of an old-time race...
When Lord Kylsant had fully set forth his position, the almost immediate result was to send Royal Mail shares bounding up almost to where they had been before the St. Davids pamphlet appeared. Victory seemed to perch on Tycoon Kylsant's standard, but it was not complete until the following afternoon when a meeting of the Royal Mail Debenture stockholders was called-a meeting which both tycoons were in duty bound to attend...
...20th of next month 69 years old. In the course of the present debt debate (TIME, July 22), he had addressed the Chamber for a total of more than 37 hours (three or four hours daily) reading every word from sheets covered with his neat, almost microscopic handwriting. Result: the strain gave him a high "gastric fever," his physician last week imperatively tucked him into...
...result of the ending of Mexico's religious troubles 80 nuns were ordered released from the penal islands of Tres Marias (The Three Marys). But Madre Maria Concepcion Acebedo de la Llata, "intellectual author" of the murder of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TiME, Sept. 3, et seq.) remained behind...
...place. Purchasers were a combination of Chicago and Toledo interests. The Chicago interest was Field, Glore & Co., acting for Chicago Corp., the Midwest investment trust organized last winter (TIME, Feb. 25). Election of Charles F. Glore and Marshall Field III to the Willys-Overland directorate will be one immediate result of the transaction. The Toledo purchasers were headed by George M. Jones, wealthy head of Toledo's Ohio Savings Bank and Trust Co. Also included was C.O. Miniger, head of Toledo's Electric Auto-Lite Co. Both Mr. Miniger and Banker Jones have long been Willys-Overland directors. The sale...