Word: ascertains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael Joseph Curley, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, recovering from pneumonia in a Baltimore hospital, was disturbed and annoyed by the description of a most lamentable event. A henchman had opened the Archbishop's safe to ascertain the presence of the gold chalice, inset with jewels, which the Catholics of Baltimore had given to the late Cardinal Gibbons on the 50th anniversary of his ordination (1918), also, the presence of the diamond-studded handle to another chalice, the gold cross of Archbishop Curley's chain, his watch, and $90 in currency. These things were not, as they should...
...that in the future . . . the committee will be able to ascertain or to identify the guilty parties...
...factories at Cincinnati, Baltimore, Roanoke, Chicago and St. Louis, and of the factories belonging to its subsidiaries (Dixie Canner Co. of Little Rock and Old Dominion Packing Co.) Those factories produce 3,000,000 tin cans a day and are worth about $7,000,000. When the appraisers ascertain the value tha Continental Can Co. will arrange a merger with U. S. Can Co., explained President O. C. Huffman of U. S. Can Co. last week. Brick Furnaces. At Mexico, Mo. was the Liptak Fire Brick Arch Co.; at Detroit was the Bigelow Arch Co.- both companies specialists in constructing...
...honest publisher who prints, believing them to be genuine, documents falsely assailing the honor of public men is guilty of culpable neglect. The publisher who prints such documents not even believing them to be true; who makes no effort to ascertain if they are true; who disregards internal evidence suggesting that they are forgeries, and who seeks to protect himself against libel suits by partly blotting out names which yet remain identifiable by the associates of the men traduced-that publisher is a disgrace to the profession." Since one of the Hearst documents purports that $25,000 was "ordered paid...
...This has led me to direct my personal attention to this subject, in order to ascertain the exact nature of these articles. As a result of this survey I confess that I am deeply mortified that this journal, which is intended to be constructive and not destructive has been made the medium for resurrection of exploded fictions, for giving currency to the so-called protocols of the 'Wise Men of Zion,' which have been demonstrated, as I learn, to be gross forgeries, and for contending that the Jews have been engaged in a conspiracy to control the capital...