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President Strotz was chagrined when Madison Square Garden, with connivance from its Chicago allies, euchred him out of the Schmeling-Stribling world's title fistfight contract (TIME, Jan. 26). But he and his up-&-doing backers-who include his smiling, big stockbroking brother Harold-vow not soon again to be outsmarted by the Easterners. If their circus battle with John Ringling in Chicago goes over, they may carry that fight to other cities, may send a circus through the land some of the proceeds from which will find their way back to the lawns of Lake Forest...
Died. Edward Irving Edwards, 68, onetime (1920-23) Governor of New Jersey, once (1923-29) Senator; by his own hand with a revolver, having brooded alone for two days; in Jersey City, N. J. Famed for his vow that he would "make New Jersey as Wet as the Atlantic Ocean," his despondency arose from the death of his wife, from political failure, from financial losses and the realization that he had cancer of the nose...
...know," said the Negro, "but if your boy is dead, I vow to kill mine in your presence...
Individual beatings are applied, in the main, to extort from the victim his land tax. Mr. Brailsford traveled through district after district where the peasants had taken and kept this vow: "We will pay no taxes until Gandhi is released from jail...
Early one morning last week Judge David G. Jenkins walked into his Mahoning County Court of Common Pleas at Youngstown, Ohio, with a thoughtful frown on his face. Since April he had been studying the famed suit by which Cyrus Stephen Eaton attempted to fulfill his vow that "Youngstown Sheet and Tube will never merge with Bethlehem Steel Corp." (TIME, March...