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Standish took first place in both timber-topping events, which were won by J. J. Hayes '34; and in the hammer throw, high jump, and discus throw, won by J. J. Healey '34. Healey broke the college record, hurling the discus 144 feet and 2 inches, but the new mark was not counted because of the high wind. G. H. Porter '34 took first place for Smith Halls in the century and furlong sprints...
Another record to fall was the mark of 14 3-5 seconds in the 120-yard low-hurdles set by E. E. Record '31 when representing Brookline High in 1928. Green, Newton High timber-topper turned in the new time of 14 2-5 seconds...
...scratched their horses were not sorry about it as they watched the field go round the four-mile 22-jump course on Charles L. A. Reiser's farm. It is no course for a brush horse; these are true U. S. fences, the hazards of a nation of timber-jumpers. It was boggy in the standing land and treacherous in the hollow. Bunching himself for a takeoff, Hubar slipped and his front legs crashed into one of those top rails no horse can take out and stay on his feet. Now Davis was taking off Sea Soldier...
Hardest hit by Nicaraguan banditry and the new Hoover policy was Standard Fruit & Steamship Co. of New Orleans. Controlled by the Brothers Vaccaro, Standard Fruit has a $13,000,000 investment in northeastern Nicaragua, including 180,000 acres of banana and timber land and 65 mi. of railroad. Seven of its employes had been murdered. Fifty thousand "stems" (bunches) of bananas were rotting for lack of transportation. Inland plantations were paralyzed. Activities at Puerto Cabezas were suspended. Vainly in Washington did William Cyprien Dufour, Standard Fruit's attorney, plead for military protection in land. Washington Irving Moss, Standard's chairman...
Heaviest U. S. investments ($70,000,000) are in Honduras.* Besides the fruit companies, Tropical Timber Co., New York & Honduran Rosario Mining Co., West End Opetceca Mining Co., U. S. Continental Mines Co., Copper Consolidated and American Chicle Co. are extensive owners and operators in the country. Secretary Stimson quickly differentiated between "banditry" in Nicaragua and "revolution" in Honduras. He conferred with the Navy Department, had three big fast cruisers (Memphis, Marblehead and Trenton) despatched to Honduran ports to protect U. S. life and property. In the Navy orders, however, were specific instructions that U. S. forces should guard only...