Word: atlantas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fees in various attempts to keep out of jail, and his attorneys have included Max D. Steuer and onetime U. S. Senator James Reed.† But in 1928 George Graham Rice was convicted of using the mails to defraud in the sale of Idaho Copper shares and sentenced to Atlanta Penitentiary for four years. An additional five-year sentence was suspended on condition that he report regularly to a probation officer after release...
...Promoter Rice was brought under guard from Atlanta to Manhattan to stand trial for evading Federal taxes on an alleged income of $1,800,000 in 1925. As his own attorney he won an acquittal...
...less than the Government was paying; that the Postmaster General forced him to sell out to American Airways-which he did at a $500,000 profit. ¶Hainer Hinshaw, onetime American Airways lobbyist, said Postmaster Brown had induced his company to agree not to bid on the proposed Savannah-Atlanta-Memphis-Tulsa route, since the Postoffice wanted to "take care of" Robertson Air Lines, which had been crudely frozen out of a St. Louis-New Orleans contract by one of the American Airways extensions. ¶Daniel Miller Sheaffer, executive of Pennsylvania Railroad and T. A. T., had an uncomfortable time...
...George M. Lott Jr. of Chicago,No. 10 ranking U. S. amateur tennist: the Miami-Biltmore championship from Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant Jr. of Atlanta, 9-7, 6-4, 11-9; at Coral Gables. Fla. In the semi-finals Grant eliminated Francis X. Shields, No. 1 amateur, and Lott beat Cliff Sutter who ranks...
...September 27, 1903, a Sunday train, No. 97, which ran over the Southern Railroad from Washington to Atlanta, was late at Lynchburg and in making up lost time, its engineer ran it at a high rate of speed on a steep grade down one side of White Oak Mountain, just north of Danville, Virginia. As the train reached a curving trestle, it left the tracks and plunged into a ravine below. The crew was killed and the train was completely destroyed. Quite a number of songs were written by different persons to commemorate this sad event...