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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Kane of Cornell at his elbow. They were placed in the same order at the finish, with Parsons close behind for the third place that gave U. S. C. two more points than it needed for the championship-45 to Stanford's 42. Yale, Cornell and N. Y. U. tied for third with 16 points apiece; Princeton and Manhattan at 13 points, a notch behind them...
...Willie Macfarlane, 43-year-old Scotch golf professional who beat Bobby Jones in a play-off for the Open in 1925 and has lately been so discouraged by his putting that he contemplated retiring: the Metropolitan Open, with 291 for four rounds; at Mamaroneck, N. Y. Olin Dutra, defending champion, made a hole-in-one on his third round, came in fourth with...
Brown University's pacifism excited an investigation by the Rhode Island Legislature. Voting in the poll was forbidden at the University of Nebraska, Hartwick College (Oneonta, N. Y.) and the College of the City of New York. Because the last is a taxpayers' institution, any "Red" result would have been "extremely impolitic." C. C. N. Y. has enough troubles anyway. Last week a C. C. N. Y. student named Jacob Itzkowitz appeared before a Brooklyn justice named Charles E. Russell. He wished to reassume the name Bakur which his grandfather had given up to avoid military service...
That afternoon C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, 49, walked across the street to Lewisohn Stadium to review a drill of the college's Reserve Officers' Training Corps. When he reached the entrance with his military science department head, Colonel George Chase Lewis, and other guests, he found a Pacifist crowd blocking his way. They jostled him, pinioned his arms for a moment. Then he raised his umbrella, flayed left & right, soon lost his umbrella. Police drove a flying wedge into the mob, surrounded...
Brokerage. In connection with straight banking, most banks buy and sell stocks for their customers. Unlike ordinary bankers J. P. Morgan has a seat on the N. Y. Stock Exchange, his partners have seats on other stock exchanges. Though they execute no orders on the floor by having memberships they, as brokers, can collect commissions (paying part to other brokers who actually execute their orders). Such commissions helped to pay the overhead. Recent example: H. F. Loree had Morgan buy 500,000 shares of New York Central for the Delaware & Hudson...