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...Salem, N. J., William McCausland, paymaster of Salem Glass Works, saved the company's $5,000 payroll when three thugs shot him, attempted to wrest the money-pouch away. He fell, rolled upon it. Workmen found him dead...
...will not strike a blow; we will die, for it is God's law. ... The police have been given the power of magistrates. They wrest the salt from our hands by breaking our fingers, but we should not give up our salt. Even if our hands are bleeding ... we should not retaliate. God is our protector...
While men great in steel fought with stock proxies in Ohio, men great in air fought with stock proxies in Delaware. At Wilmington, representatives of United Aircraft & Transport Corp. tried and failed to wrest ownership of National Air Transport Inc. from the Curtiss-Keys interests. But where the Ohio battle ended conclusively, the Delaware affair was but a prelude to battle, the result a lull in hostilities but not in hostility...
...Wood, who has already been nominated for the 1930 Davis Cup Team, should be able to bring tennis prestige to the Crimson by means of international competition. The ranks of the future Davis Cup teams will have to be filled with youthful college players who will be able to wrest the championship away from the French. Lott, Doeg, Allison and Van Ryn are well on the way now to accomplishing this and it is likely that Harvard's three representatives will some day take their places alongside of them...
...house established as Hart, Schaffner & Marx. The first year (1887) they did a $550,000 business; last year, a $35,000,000 business. Founder Hart survived his partners. Long interested in educational* and social work, he was a faithful donor to Jane Addams' famed Hull House on Chicago's Wrest Side...