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...they thought was their strongest institution, Boise citizens stampeded for their deposits in the First Security Bank, only bank left in Boise. Panicky crowds swarmed into the lobby, impatient queues stretched out into the street and halfway around the block in both directions. At noon President John Lynn Driscoll strung a huge sign across the front of his First Security, promising to pay each & every depositor in full, inviting all to come and get their money. The run stopped as suddenly as it had begun. Next day Idaho's Senator Borah assured Boise that the R. F. C. would...
United has 975 cigar stores, 219 drug stores strung from coast to coast. Several years ago control passed from Whelan-Schulte interests to George Kenan and Frederick Kenan Morrow, chairman and vice president of Gold Dust Corp. Though sales have been well maintained, heavy losses piled up in United's huge real estate holdings. At the turn of the year real estate and leaseholds amounted to one-half of its consolidated assets...
Jaunty Jockey Beary strung the patriotic Express still further along by declaring that what a great many Irish Catholics and Protestants really want is a union of the whole island under the Prince of Wales as Head of the State! Jockey Beary described how, before he was admitted to talk with President de Valera, he was peered at through a steel slit in the door...
...leaning on their oars in the calm twilight, saw Cornell stroked by Bob Wilson whose boat won in 1930, sweep across the line second by 2½ lengths. Washington was third with Navy fourth. Syracuse fifth and the others? Columbia, Penn, and M. I. T.?strung out far behind along the river...
...badly decomposed remains, clad only in a flannel stomach band and an undershirt, lay face down in a shallow depression, possibly a hastily scratched grave. On one side was a tall oak On another was a stump. Through the underbrush 75 ft. back ran the special telephone line strung during the world-wide search. The head showed two fractures a round hole through the right temple. One leg and both hands were missing...