Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of a campaign for renomination. Wisconsin's 69-year-old Governor Albert George Schmedeman, Democrat, stepped from a speaking platform last month, slipped on a loose stone, wrenched his left foot, continued his campaign. Last week, in severe pain, he bedded himself in a Madison hospital where surgeons amputated his infected leg above the knee, felt he had "every chance" for recovery...
Case of Judge Prince. Within the fortnight Papa Cheron had played in bad luck. Weeks of shouting by the opposition Press finally forced the release, against his orders, of the long-suppressed official report on the murder of Judge Albert Prince at Dijon. It filled 180 pages and proved nothing at all beyond the ability of the Gallic mind to confuse an issue...
Last February, the clay before he was to have testified at the Stavisky inquiry, Albert Prince, a member of France's highest court, was found on a railroad track in the wild and rocky country outside Dijon. He had been called from Paris by a false message that his mother was dangerously ill. When found, he had been doped, one ankle tied to the rails and his body mangled by a passing train. The music roll that he used for a briefcase was found about 30 yards away, rifled of its contents, together with his keys, his money...
...Despite the rise of Nudism, Paris garters are sold in 65 foreign countries, and in a good year A. Stein & Co. makes nearly $1,000,000. (But last year it made only $280,00.) The concern was started in a one-room plant in Chicago in the 1880s by Albert Stein, a German immigrant, to turn out ladies' fancy garters with rabbits' feet and silver buckles and the blazing armbands favored by the high-collared boulevardiers of that era. One by one he imported his three brothers, the last of whom, Sigmund, is now head of the company...
...Albert E. Hindmarsh, Assistant Dean of Harvard College and instructor in Government: "Japanese Foreign Policy...