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William S. Wellington '34 (E) defeated Asa E. Phillips '34 (K) 3-0; Edwin H. B. Pratt '36 (K) defeated George C. Fuller '34 (E) 3-0; Howard S. Whiteside '34 (E) defeated David Macdonald '36 (E) 3-0; Philip J. Conley '34 (K) defeated Henry B. White '35 (E) 3-2; George S. Franklin '36 (E) defeated Charles E. Sweeney...
...large amounts, and finally a total investment of $50,000,000. Why should I not strive to rehabilitate this organization which has been my life work?" Thus did the septuagenarian founder of big Minnesota & Ontario Paper Co. lately write the unhappy holders of his defaulted bonds. But Founder Edward Wellington Backus was unhappier than his bondholders. Unable to refund a bond issue, the $100,000,000 paper company in which he owned 90% of the common stock passed into receivership in 1931. Founder-President Backus was later ousted as sole receiver by bankers who put in two of their...
...youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...
Christian Arthur Wellesley, 4th Earl Cowley, a great-great-grandnephew of the Duke of Wellington, who last June married a hat-checker in a Reno. Nev. night club, announced that he had bought a ranch in Washoe Valley, Nev.. planned to renounce his seat in the House of Lords, become a U. S. citizen. Explained he: "My wife and the life of the West mean more to me than titles. We shall be immensely happy on our little ranch. We shall have sufficient pasture for my horses, raise a little hay, and settle down to being happy...
While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...