Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge top-price fees. 'T exacted from my clients in the way of fees all that the traffic would bear, or almost the limit." Foreseeing a period .of depression after Cleveland's election in 1892, he decided to accept the offer of Diamond Tycoon "Barney"' Barnato (Barnett Isaacs) to be his consulting engineer in South Africa. Six months later Hammond was working for Cecil Rhodes. For seven years he was one of Rhodes's right-hand men and closest friends. Says Hammond: "He was the greatest personality I have ever known." On an exploring trip into...
...killed in a Manhattan taxi war, his daughter Princess (Jean Parker) blames Toledo (Chester Morris). The audience is rapidly made aware that Toledo has the golden heart traditional for mobsters in that blend of Hans Christian Andersen and Broadway which is a Damon Runyon story. Leon Errol and Vince Barnett are the gorillas detailed by their boss to see that life flows smoothly for the Princess, a task made difficult because she resents any benefactions sponsored by Toledo. Faced with the problem of getting her a new hack horse, they hire a professional horse thief from a Madison Square Garden...
Died. Frederick Barnett Kilmer, 83, director of Johnson & Johnson's scientific laboratories (bandages, etc.). father of the late Poet Joyce Kilmer ("Trees"); after a long illness; in New Brunswick...
Died. Walter N. Barnett, 94. retired wallpaper dealer, pilot of the steamboat Natchez in 1870 when she lost her historic race with the Robert E. Lee for the title of the fastest boat on the Mississippi River; of a heart attack; in St. Louis, Mo. Pilot Barnett's alibi: the captain by mistake ordered him to steer into a bayou...
...Simpson, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard in 1919. They were married in 1926 in London, where Mrs. Simpson has resided ever since. Last spring Mrs. Simpson visited the U. S.. attended the races at Pimlico with her aunt, Mrs. Buchanan Merryman. Another aunt is Mrs. George Barnett of Washington, widow of the War-time Commandant of the U. S. Marine Corps. With Aunt Merryman, Mrs. Simpson is now traveling on the Continent, closely attended by H.R.H...