Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Everyone from the White House gardeners to the Secretary of War knew of the impending battle between the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants for the championship of the Eastern Division of the National (professional) Football League. In fact, Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Postmaster General Jim Farley and RFC Chairman Jesse Jones were among the red-feathered Washington in vaders...
...header Bowl game (one the day before and one the day after New Year's) between four of the five top teams of the country. But when Texas Christian, of neighboring but envious Fort Worth, refused to come to its party, notwithstanding a proposed junket to the New York World's Fair next year as an added inducement, the Cotton Bowl Association announced that it would stage only one game-between undefeated Texas Tech (pride of the Panhandle) and twice-defeated St. Mary's of California. Each team will get about...
...York Times, a Rupert Hughes novel, We Live but Once, an old hatbox- these and other heterogeneous waste materials the Clifton (N. J.) Paper Board Co. converts into paperboard for corrugated shipping containers, folding cartons, shoe boxes. Last week, after a few trial runs, the company's newly modernized $2,000,000 factory was ready for full-blast operation. Clifton turned out 12,000 tons of paperboard in 1932; the plant is now good for 125,000 tons a year...
Last week A. G. & E. told SEC that it would: 1) eliminate 112 companies; 2) juggle its properties into two "systems"-one consisting of power properties in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia; the other in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky and Tennes see. The first "system" is already, as required by law, almost entirely "integrated" geographically, the second obviously cannot be. For this the Hopson lawyers had an "out" which will doubtless give SEC pause- they maintained that since each subsidiary was wholly located in a single State or adjoining States, the plan...
Disaster, when it came, came from all sides. His wife divorced him, sued a brunette and various others for slander. The Treasury listed him as a tax avoider. Stockholders sued him. SEC got after him, turned its findings over to a U. S. Attorney. Last week in New York a Federal grand jury indicted Wallace Groves, Brother George Groves and Cronies De Ronde and Warriner and five corporations* on 14 counts of mail fraud and one of conspiracy. Principal transaction named in the indictment was a neat little deal whereby Wallace Groves was said to have made...