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...forwards are concerned on the Freshmen team, it's really sing a song of six-pence, because the Yardlings are better fortified at that position than at any other. Joe Romano and Mike Rice form one forward duo, and Johnny Rigby teams with Will Webber on the other. These four men have divided the forward work almost exclusively among themselves...
...visitors went into an early lead to be on the long end of a 25 to 11 score at half time. High scorers for the Crimson were John Finegan and Bill Webber who tied for honors with nine points apiece...
...Illinois Ry. is more important than its size would indicate, for it is a connecting link in the great Van Sweringen system. To get control of C. & E. I. after ICC had disapproved linking it with the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Vans pulled off a slick deal in which Paine, Webber & Co. acted as dummy purchasers. A subsequent circumventing of legal requirements, whereby the Vans got RFC unwittingly to pay off an inter-company loan, drew an ICC examiner's admission that "we were made monkeys of. . . ." Last week ICC approved a reorganization plan for C. & E. I. that made...
...took refuge under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. Steered by Chairman Kenneth David Steere, who as a partner of Paine, Webber & Co. handled many a market operation for the Vans, it presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
...Chairman Steere, no longer with Paine, Webber, was "tickled to death it went through...