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Sued. Frederick Henry Prince. 73, Boston banker, board chairman of Chicago's Union Stock Yards & Transit Co.; by Arthur H. Mason. 63, trainer and seller of polo ponies and hunters; for $50,000 damages on a charge that after a 1929 polo game at the Myopia Hunt Club in which Mason rode Prince off the ball, Prince, cursing, swatted Mason behind the left ear with his mallet...
...weeks ago appeared in the Press an appeal from Anthony J. Buttitta of Durham, N. C. for the names & addresses of subscribers to Contempo, a literary magazine (TIME, Jan. 2). Mr. Buttitta said he had moved Contempo from Chapel Hill, N. C., had lost the subscription list in transit. Last week a frantic protest was issued by Milton A. Abernethy of Chapel Hill who said he was the sole proprietor of Contempo; that it had not been moved anywhere; that the one & only subscription list was safe in Chapel Hill; that Mr. Buttitta, onetime co-publisher, was a humbug...
...tellers squabbled loudly over the legality of proxies. Insurgent Director Amster listened gleefully to stockholders shouting disapproval of the management. Saying they understated their case, Chairman Straus summed up: "It is not only the Manhattan situation which is rotten, but I can go further and say that Interborough [Rapid Transit Co.] itself was born in iniquity." After seven hours of tumult. President Roberts of Manhattan Railway waved his arms in despair, yelled: "The meeting is yours." The Amster group then elected their own board and went home...
Thus did Nathan Leonard Amster bring a new entry to the crowded field of interests which are jockeying for position in New York City's plans for unification of all its transit lines (TIME. Sept. 5). The ousted directors represented I. R. T., the subway system which leased all Manhattan Railway's elevated lines for 999 years, and pledged itself to pay interest & dividends on Manhattan securities. When I. R. T. was thrown into receivership, it was an open secret that the chief purpose of the receivership was to break the unprofitable lease of the El. Insurgent Amster...
...Secretary of War; at Sea Bright, N. J. Splitting with President Wilson on the need for a reserve "continental" army trained by the Regular Army, he resigned when Wilson declined to oppose the counterplan of a National Guard. In 1918-23 he served as receiver for Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., put it back on its feet...