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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After a half-century, Mr. Cusack decided to retire from active work. But it took a banking syndicate to buy out his interest in the Thomas Cusick Co. of Chicago. What his selling price was is unknown. But the company's last balance sheet showed assets over $26,000,000 and annual gross business over $23,000,000. The headquarters of the company are located in Chicago, with branches in about one hundred other cities. The concern owns 100,000 separate leases controlling 40,000,000 square feet (10 10/99 square miles) of wall surface...
...ability only from the daily scrimmage at Soldiers Field. Greenough, in fact, is its only member at whom critics of the game have had so much as a fair chance, and at that it was when he was at the pivotal position. The other six are practically unknown quantities to the outside world. To closer followers of football they are all known to have had coaching under Fisher for either one or two seasons, and most of them to have played in games last year. They are not, therefore, uninitiated to Harvard football ways...
What it could do on the offense is uncertain, although not completely so, for the ability of each individual is well known. Cheek, as a ground-gainer knows few equals, on the Harvard squad at least. As a field general he is an entirely unknown quantity, although he must have shown Coach Fisher something to have advanced from Team C to Team A in one week. Gehrke has won laurels both as a punter and a valuable defence man, to say nothing of his ability at interference. For an all-round useful man in the backfield he has Miller...
...after inspections and parades, masses, blessings of the Unknown Soldier tomb, giving of prizes, repetition of clean speech and clean heart vows, the 100,000 dispersed to their homes...
...Golfers' Association championship over the French Lick Links. Qualifying rounds having been played by districts (TIME, Sept. 8), the 32 plunged into match play without ado. Fur flew in the second round, when Gene Sarazen, of Briarcliff, N. Y., champion these two years, was suddenly ousted by an "unknown," one Larry Nabholtz, of Lima, Ohio. Nabholtz nabbed "the Grinning Runt" at the 35th green. Bobby Cruickshank, of Shacka-maxon, N. J., shot 69 and 71 in his second round match, yet he, too, was ousted-by Ray Derr of the Lulu Temple Club, Philadelphia, after 37 terrific holes. Thereafter...