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People began to bet instead on Mr Jinks, a grey horse named by Ireland's President Cosgrave, with ancestry dating to 1774 and in whose long lineage there always has been a grey dam or a grey sire. On the morning of the Derby there were three favorites: Cragadour, Mr Jinks, and Lord Derby's Hunter's Moon. A few people bet on a horse called Walter Gay, receiving 100 to 8 odds. They were later proved wise because Walter Gay came in second. In Belfast, Ireland was circulated a message which nobody could trace to its source: "Trigo will...
Wesley Livsey Jones of Washington, the senatorial sire of the Five & Ten Act, doubtless never gave a thought to the publicity he would come in for. But last week he made it clear he resented joining Mr. Volstead's category. Emphatically he protested: "There is no Jones law!" By this he meant, hairsplitting, that his measure, increasing prohibition penalties to five years' imprisonment and $10,000 fine, was merely an amendment to the Volstead Act and should therefore be anonymous...
During the panic (1907), 40-year-old "J. Pierpont" acted as chief-of-staff to his doughty sire. After the death of "J. P." in 1913, "J. Pierpont" signalized his ascension by a bold decision: namely that he and his partners would withdraw from active direction of the corporations in whose finances the House of Morgan was chiefly interested; would confide their management to such capable "outsiders" as the Owen D. Young of today; and would assume on a grand scale what has become the House of Morgan's paternal role toward such high bouncing babes as General Motors...
...Easily, Sire!" exclaims the Dane, "I could stow you away in a single empty wine cask...
...That is forbidden by Dutch law, Sire," snapped Merciless Mackensen. "What I told you of the sentiments of the people is true. I see that I must take my leave...