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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Winner of the $200 was another Billiot named Israel, who won the official race an hour and a half later. Dipping his paddle 52 times a minute for the first two miles, 50 times a minute for the last two, Israel covered the distance in 45 min., 45 sec. Adam, who was too tired and disgusted to start in the official race, did not even get one of the 69 merchandise prizes that included two pigs and a bull...
...Next day SEC finally found someone who had thought it best to warn the Exchange of Richard Whitney's condition- none other than his lawyer, Randolph Mason. Fortified with written permission from Richard Whitney in Sing Sing to divulge anything relating to the case, Lawyer Mason said he had asked Stock Exchange Governor E. H. H. Simmons on February 16 for an immediate audit of Richard Whitney & Co. "I said to Mr. Simmons that I was very much concerned about Dick Whitney; that I did not know whether he was solvent or insolvent, but I felt there was very...
Lawyer Mason's next revelation put SEC itself on the spot. Telling of a conference with Roland Redmond, counsel for the Exchange, a few hours before Richard Whitney & Co. was suspended. Lawyer Mason said: "Redmond said that the attitude of the SEC was that this situation should not be allowed to break and that a Commissioner Hanes was here in New York with the idea that the SEC was ready to cooperate, with the idea of continuing the firm in business for some time, with the idea that some orderly liquidation could be effected...
After taking the mile race in 4 min., 18.2 sec., ahead of his teammate Gene Clark, inspired Northrop returned for the half. Congdon of Yale was never a threat to Harvard's leader in this distance, for the Blue ace was left far behind when Northrop started sprinting the last lap to break both the meet and Harvard records with 1 min., 52.3 seconds...
...place in the broad jump, and was third in the pole vault and the hundred yard dash. His five places netted 15 points. Rolla Campbell squeezed out a first in the quarter-mile, and then won his specialty, the half-mile, in the easy time of 2 min., 3 sec...