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...sooner had he spoken than in Brooklyn occurred a good example of how kidnappers can be caught by prompt action. Three men had tried to extort $10,000 from Dr. Jacob Wachsman. Dr. Wachsman happens to be honorary physician of the New York Detectives' Association. He telephoned his detective friends and they promptly threw a network of espionage around him. A detective was his chauffeur. Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors...
Brokers' Explanation. Brokers for this Soviet sale were: Harold L. Bache of the Manhattan firm of J. S. Bache & Co., who disposed of 2,300,000 bu.; Alvin Wachsman of Wachsman & Wassail who sold 3,110,000 bu.; Adolph E. Norden of A. Norden & Co., whose sales totalled 2,335,000 bu. The House committee members seemed dazed by the intricacies of grain trading as described by Broker Bache, who denied that the Soviet sales were large enough to affect the pit price, explained that if Russia had wanted to manipulate the world price, it would have sold short...
...Begg, T. J. Chatfield, W. E. Dwight, C. B. Eddy, C. J. Fay, J. E. Grafton, Logan Hay, W. M. Strong, H. S. Vaile, 1. Wachsman, J. D. Warnock, A. L. Wheeler, H. S. Bowns, F. W. Hastings Jr., T. N. Heermance, W. J. Lamson, I. P. Lyon, A. K. Merritt, A. W. Peirce and L. A. Welles...
Philosophical Orations. - Begg, Chatfield, W. Dwight, Eddy, Fay, Grafton, Hay, Strong, Vaile, Wachsman, Warnock, Wheeler...
...scholarship prizes for next year have been awarded at Yale. Winthrop E. Dwight won the Woolsey scholarship, class of '93; William Begg the Hurlburt scholarship, class of '93; and Isadore Wachsman the third freshman scholarship. The Scott Huett scholarship, class of '92, was won by James W. D. Ingersoll...