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...stayed at the Congress Hotel and had contracted dysentery, filed the first suit resulting from the epidemic. It asked $300,000 damages each from Dr. Bundesen and the Congress. The charge : To protect his reputation and its financial interests Dr. Bundesen and the hotel had "wilfully and wantonly" sup pressed news of the epidemic. In defense, publicity-loving Dr. Bundesen pointed only to the following statement by Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer of the U. S. Public Health Service : "Dr. Bundesen and the Board of Health are to be congratulated on the promptness, aggressiveness and thoroughness with which the situation [epidemic...
...Soviet ballet is like was hard to discover from Vecheslova's and Chabukani's dancing. They used the conventional steps, only more of them. The piano accompaniment was too thin to be noticed. Only hint of propaganda was the red cap and the tri-colored cockade sup posed to suggest "The Flame of Paris." None of the dances had meaning outside of the energy it took to perform them...
Culminating two years of endeavor to establish this race as a permanent event in the rowing calender, the new cup will be placed in competition for the first time this Spring when the race will be held on the Charles on April 29th. The sup will be presented to President Compton by the president of the Technology student body the night before the event, and he will personally present it to the winning crew the following afternoon. In addition to the cup, there will be a complement of some form on which will be recorded the particulars of each race...
While the Coolidge article was political gospel for all G. O. Partisans, it prompted such an irreverent individual as Funny man Will Rogers to remark: "Calvin Coolidge has had everybody on the anxious seat for months as to who he would sup port in the November handicap. Campaign managers and politicians have been dogging his rubber-booted steps. But it took, not a politician, but a commercial-minded gentleman (proprietor of America's biggest nickelodeon), Mr. George Horace Lorimer, not with words or editorial persuasion but with his signature on a small piece of paper, payable...
...sold control of Pacific Public Service Co. to Standard Oil Co. of California. The purchase put Standard into several new fields. Through subsidiaries P. P. S. operates the largest bottled spring and distilled water business in the world and 20% of its revenue comes from this source. It also sup plies electric light, power and natural gas to 80 California communities in two areas. Most important of these areas is the industrial region in Contra Costa County (along the northeast shore of San Francisco Bay) which includes the plants of Johns-Manville, Associated Oil, Union Oil, Hercules Powder, American Smelting...