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...shrewd promoter looking for speculative cattle lands. Then and there they became fast friends. Colonel Hammond stayed in the Army, serving in most of the important South American legations, later becoming identified with oil, railroads & banking. The promoter got into the prizefight business and made the name of Tex Rickard one of the most spectacular in a spectacular era. Colonel Hammond in 1923 helped Rickard raise the $7,000,000 necessary to move Madison Square Garden away from Madison Square and house it 25 blocks uptown in an arena the like of which had never been seen before. Rickard died...
HARVARD '37 TUFTS '37 Briggs, g. g., Hanson Holcombe, r.f.b. l.f.b., Silberman Chace, l.f.b. r.f.b., Lamson Bounakes, r.h.b. l.h.b., Stewart Rickard, c.h.b. c.h.b., Jarvis Burbank, l.h.b. r.h.b., Young Fraley, r.o.f. l.o.f., Wylie Morgan, r.i.f. l.i.f., Cornwell Darling, c.f. c.f., Norman Fujino, l.i.f. r.i.f., Toon Wood, l.o.f. r.o.f., State...
Harvard Freshmen: Briggs, g.: Holcombe, Chace, r.f.b.; Linde, l.f.b.; Bounakee, r.h.b.; Rickard, c.h.b.; Kelly, Burbank, Notman, l.h.b.; Parsons, Fraley, r.o.f.; Morgan, r.i.f.; Darling, c.f.; Fujino, Kelly, l.i.f.; Wood, l.o.f...
...Freshmen will start with: Briggs, g.; Holcombe, r.f.b.; Linde, l.f.b.; Bounakes, r.h.b.; Rickard, c.h.b.; Burbank, l.h.b.; Parsons, r.o.f.; Morgan, r.i.f.; Darling, c.f.; Fujino, l.i.f.; Wood, l.o.f...
...Edgar Rickard thought it was "outrageous" to link the names of Hoover and Morgan just because he (Rickard) was on the firm's list. Morgan "friends" were in the Senate (California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation...