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Harvard's representatives will leave from Seattle June 29 and will arrive in Japan where they will be the guests of the Japan Student English Association, sponsors of the conference. Following the conference in Tokyo, the members will be taken on a two-week's tour of southwestern Japan and Manchukuo. All of the expenses of the stay in Japan will be paid by the Japanese organization...
...emergency clinic in Seattle. Last year he put up a five-story, $125,000 building in Tacoma which houses his business administration department, his private clinic & hospital. There Dr. Bridge, undisputed leader in Washington contract practice, directs his medical corporation. He now has 15 branches covering most of southwestern Washington, receives daily reports from each one, telephone calls in all emergency cases. Sixty-five doctors, nurses, office-assistants and business managers are on his payroll. Washington knows Dr. Bridge as an able surgeon and a closefisted, hard-driving businessman. He will stand for no nonsense about shirking bills...
...Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree bought control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines ("Katy") which he planned to merge with his Kansas City Southern and with St. Louis Southwestern. The Interstate Commerce Commission refused to approve the merger, forced Railroader Loree to dispose of his holdings, resign the chairmanship of Katy. Last week his successor, Board Chairman & President Michael Harrison Cahill, also resigned, for personal reasons (wife's illness). Katy directors left the presidency vacant, elected as chairman bold, shrewd Matthew Scott Sloan who abruptly resigned from the presidency of New York Edison Co. in 1932. "Matt" Sloan, whose first...
...warnings Dr. Brinkley had repeatedly let his station overrun its allotted time on the air, had broadcast solely in English, had advertised his medical services and remedies without a Mexican license. He had also caused Mexico "constant trouble" with the U. S. by hogging channels assigned to weak Southwestern U. S. radio stations. Last fortnight Mexico's Department of Communications issued an order suspending XER for 30 days. Resourceful Dr. Brinkley got a restraining injunction, went on broadcasting by remote control. A higher court quashed the injunction. Still cowboy songs, jazz and unctuous medical advice continued to gush...
...vast were the oil holdings of the late Thomas B. Slick, "king of wildcatters," "richest independent operator in the world," that even after he sold the major part of his Southwestern leases to Prairie Oil in 1929 for $35,000,000, he still had 112 wells in Oklahoma producing 20,000 bbl. a day. These holdings, known as the Slick-Urschel Oil Co., have been managed since his death by Charles F. Urschel, ransomed from kidnappers last summer (TIME, July 31, Aug. 7), and by Mrs. Slick who became Mrs. Urschel. Slick Oil has sold most of its output...