Word: ashton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Come-On Man. In the last five minutes of this play's inaction, one supposed detective turned out to be a crook and two supposed crooks turned out to be detectives. The entire cast, however, remained journeyman actors with but little chance to be anything else. Playwright Herbert Ashton Jr. and his father were the pseudo-crooks...
...Ashton Stevens...
...Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co., pointing to decreased equipment orders, decreased business for local, branch line, short-haul services. With Satisfaction, retorted Interstate Commerce Commissioner Frank McManamy, insisting that short-haul freight, short-distance passenger service, brings little or no profit to railroads. With Determination, compromised R. H. Ashton, president of the American Railway Association, adding motor competition to rate reductions, rising costs, on the list of urgent problems...
...author has a theory that the police are always a step ahead of the criminal--this indeed like the "You Can't Win" posters in the subways of New York, is one of the main reasons for the writing of the book. Mr. Ashton-Wolfe, particularly in the cases dealing with Hanoi Shan, shows that even the cleverest criminal meets his match. Many murders were committed by this Oriental, who with diabolical cleverness managed always to leave his victims in such a position that the demise seemed due to suicide. But finally Dr. Bertillon grew suspicious, and even this master...
...burying grounds. Disappointments, which come to every man in public life, forced his retirement in 1903. He came back. In 1908 he retired again, publicly and with strong vows of abstinence. For three years he struggled heroically against the deadly fascination of the habit. The habit won. Then Algernon Ashton faced his weakness squarely. He accepted it, took pen in hand, wrote a letter to the Times. Old now, but proud, he perseveres...