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...relax. He had removed part of the stomach of the Rev. James Cummings, 35, a Chicago priest, because of intractable ulcers. Everything had gone smoothly. But as Dr. Fowler was putting the last stitches in the patient's abdomen, there came a bang like that of a bursting tire, and a puff of smoke spewed out of the anesthesia machine. The explosion ripped open the anesthesia bag, and blew out the glass covers on the machine's flutter valves...
...away at his house with a shotgun. The next night, a bullet zinged through a window of Dentist W. A. Fingal's house. About the same time, a dynamite bomb exploded in Negro Physician Urbane F. Bass's backyard. Another bomb was tossed in front of the tire shop belonging to Vice President Henry Dyson of the local chapter of the N.A.A.C.P...
...Wall Streeters could match the Midas touch and power of Williams. An Ohio boy who ran a tricycle factory at 19, he brought his profits to Manhattan, multiplied them in the tire business, then got in on the ground floor of the great electric power boom. By 1924, with a total investment of $2,072,000, he had won 96% control of the great Central States Electric Corp. combine, and with it reared a pyramid of utilities topped by his fabulous North American holding company. The great expansion of the nation and the big bull market boomed his companies. Between...
Whenever Manhattan's key-hole columnists tire of puffing their friends or scalping their public enemies, they refresh their spirits by jealously skinning one another. Last week the knives came out with a vengeance. And, fittingly enough, Walter Winchell, who is the busiest scalper, this time got the closest skinning...
Died. Russell Allen Firestone, 50, second of five sons of the late tire tycoon Harvey Firestone and a director of Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan. He devoted his leisure to a series of civic-minded hobbies: the Victory Garden movement (he was a vice president), the 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America...