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...contract expires and the . . . club owner submits a new contract... the player must either sign the contract... or he is forever barred from playing organized baseball. . . ." Since the existence of organized baseball depends on the existence of some form of agreement between club owners to prevent the richest club from hiring all the best players, few baseballers hoped that Representative Cannon's appeal would do much to improve their status. Last week, the U. S. Department of Justice found in a 1922 Supreme Court decision written by Oliver Wendell Holmes grounds for not conducting the investigation. Justice Holmes declared...
United Mine Workers is the biggest, richest, strongest, best-disciplined union in the land, and one man-John L. Lewis -has made it all those things. But if U. M. W.'s strength is in Leader Lewis, his strength is no less in that great union, some 500,000 strong. Its half-million votes, plus its $150,000 contribution to the Democratic campaign fund last summer, have made him a prime political power. Needing money for the C. I. O. campaign which has carried him to Labor's peak, he raised-and can raise again when he needs...
...were taken by long over worked Moors and Spanish Rightists. One hundred and fifty miles to the southwest another Italian force was in the field, operating against the Leftist city of Pozoblanco. Nearby was a prize almost as valuable as Madrid itself, the mercury mines of Almaden, oldest and richest in Europe, vital to munition makers throughout the continent. Anxious to make up for the ignominy of Guadalajara, these Italians with their Spanish allies attacked, were beaten back, attacked again, ended Holy Week just about where they started. Other fronts were at a standstill too. The Red militia were even...
Many a U. S. church, when in need of money, knows of philanthropists who are good for a touch. But rare is the touchee available to more than one sect. Thus last week the richest man in Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 14,763) made news by paying off the debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly...
...wealth if not in prestige the open-handed Toronto millionaires are a match for Montreal's best. Richest man in Canada is Sir Herbert Samuel Holt, testy, 81-year-old Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada. An Irishman from Dublin, he got his start in Canadian Pacific Ry., made a fortune in Montreal utilities, another fortune in textiles. Hardboiled, hot tempered, hobbyless, he has been known to pick up an inquisitive newshawk, toss him bodily downstairs...