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Because he was a Socialist, because he was a member of the Republican Schutzbund, because he fought like a wildcat to defend the Floridsdorf district in Vienna against government artillery six weeks ago, Dr. George Weissel, university graduate, student of philosophy and Floridsdorf fire chief, was taken from jail and hanged...
...which in January, 1932, uncovered a rich new field. When the U. S. started buying gold last year. 58 new mining brokers registered at "Manila in a single month and 30 new companies were incorporated. The Director of Commerce and Industry hastened to dam up a flood of worthless wildcat securities by revamping the blue sky laws...
Coach Joe Stubbs has confined his "wildcat" line, which started the game with McGill, to second string; and intends to start Windy Hasler at left wing and Ben Beale at right, while Al Dewey who was high-scorer in last Wednesday night's game when he rang up three tallies and one assist, will lead off at center. This is the same will that began the game with Princeton last Saturday, which the Tiger took 3-0. In spite of the fact that the "wildcats" still show their old pep, the return of Ben Beale in time...
Coach Casey must have been a bit concerned just the same over the running weakness, for several shifts in the backfield are on the schedule for the Wildcat--last week it was the Bobcats--tilt. The one thing that everyone will be watching today is the ability of the Crimson outfit to gain consistently through the line. It seemed to us that the lightness of Bates' backs held the Lewiston outfit to a small yardage more than the play of the Harvard linemen. The little fellows were stopped by sheer weight...
...Napoleon is extensive, found this interest very annoying. Texaco has had a tradition of down right individualism ever since it was founded by John Warne ("Bet-a-Million") Gates & friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution...