Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George do it", George had to do it the way you wanted. Nobody cared enough about the matter last Spring to object but now that class unity is to be broken up, things are humming. I should think the News would lose patience and start calling names back at some of its correspondents...
...letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped a $3,000 brooch, received it back from an honest finder, came next day without jewels. . . . All these things and more happened last week because in Chicago, and then in Philadelphia, the Chicago Cubs played the Philadelphia Athletics for "the baseball championship of the world...
Nonetheless cautious anonymity revealed that the operators took their account books to the conferences. Government accountants studied them during the fortnight, calling in the operators occasionally. They were impatient to get back to their own offices in different parts of the country. But exigency kept them irefully at Washington. The accountants discovered that some of the operators were making money on their mail business. Most were not. The money-makers argued that their present profits were just beginning to wipe out the losses which they had endured in previous years. A strong debating point was the fact that the Government...
...came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial and business side of mining rather than the engineering, and finance did not so much appeal to him. When Chile Copper Co. was sold to Anaconda, he came back to the U. S., built himself his fine Norman manor on Long Island, had otherwise no occupation...
...acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances, as well as the joys of the liaison. Finally he was reduced to borrowing from the butcher and the wife who by that time closed her door on him. Lillian went back to work at the handkerchief counter, kept Hubert...