Word: african
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months: "Evelyn Dallas, who got all that publicity when Geo. White discovered her in Florida, was dumped with others . . . Harry Richman, however, diamond-wrist watched her, and she likes . . . Mary Garden doesn't seem to be swooning at sight of Capt. Babe (6 ft. 7) White, the African explorer any more. ... A high official who 'resigned' recently because of 'ill health' was forced to retire because he was Harry Thawish. . . . What theatrical att'y has terpsichorines fired from shows when they do not go out with his 'particular' and 'eminent...
...three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with...
Copper; 9½ Cents. When copper had tumbled to 14? per Ib. last spring, M. Fernand Pisart, managing director of Societie Generale des Minerals of Brussels, potent marketer of African copper, arrived in Manhattan (TIME, May 5). Roundly was it hinted then that all copper countries would cooperate, the price be held. Last week, just after copper had dropped to a new low of 9½?, a level not witnessed since 1895, it was disclosed that once again M. Pisart would visit the U. S. Again it is hoped that his arrival may mean an agreement to curtail African production...
...first issue. (An article by Clarence Darrow, "John Brown-He Who Struck the First Blow," is scheduled for November.) Besides four stories and eight bits of verse there were 16 special features, among them an "exposé" of U. S. rule in the Virgin Islands; an account of primitive African musical instruments; a success biography of Samuel Winningham, watermelon tycoon; notes upon Alexandre Dumas, pére (he was a quadroon) and Ignatius Sancho, "the forgotten man of letters"; an argument against birth control with detailed objections to contraceptives; a debate, "Is It Possible for the Church to Serve...
...career started in Ely, Nevada, where around 1906 he was a practical mining man. In 1920 with Thomas F. Cole he raised enough money to finance the Comstock merger. He be came head of the combined companies, retained the position after the Cecil Rhodes South African group bought control...