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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...generally believed that the U.S. Government closed the border as an aftermath of the Peteet "Shame Deaths" some three years back. One Thomas Peteet. U.S. citizen, and his wife and two daughters were on holiday. Drugged wine was served the girls in a bar; they were kidnaped, haled to a vice den and repeatedly assaulted. Thomas Peteet, miserably ashamed, turned on the gas in a San Diego hotel and killed his whole family. Four Mexicans were tried for the crime, and acquitted...
This winter ingenious promoters devised a way to keep some of the U.S. gold in town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
...cornered Frau Einstein in the elevator of her home but could obtain little "color" for their stories. "Why? If you would only tell us why!" pleaded Frau Einstein. Lacking other Einstein comment, Berlin newspapers republished his one "joke" about relativity, viz.: "When you sit with a nice girl for two hours you think it's only a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove for a minute you think it's two hours...
Last week another Brown became president of a company with which he has had less than two years' experience. He is Lewis H. Brown, who, at 35, heads Johns-Manville Corp. (roofing). Mr. Brown succeeds the late Theodore Merseles. Both Mr. Brown and Mr. Merseles came to Johns-Manville in August, 1927, Mr. Merseles as President and Mr. Brown as Assistant to the President. Both Mr. Merseles and Mr. Brown came to Johns-Manville from Montgomery Ward, and both made the change after the House of Morgan had become interested in Johns-Manville. Thus Mr. Brown was, in effect...
Last week, rumor linked two old Standard Oil units in a $1,000,000,000 merger. Oldest (1866) of existing oil companies, Vacuum Oil Co. was reported ready and anxious to unite with Standard Oil Co. of New York. As Vacuum makes lubricants (Gargoyle Mobiloil) and Standard of New York makes fuel (Socony gasoline), the two companies do not compete. Hence, the Department of Justice may approve their reunion...