Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt had formed the Roosevelt Lines to operate a service to India for the U. S. Shipping Board. Jute was its principal baggage. In 1926 he took into the company two widely-known young shippingmen: John M. Franklin whose father, Philip Albright Small Franklin, heads I. M. M., and Basil Harris. He promised vigorous expansion of the U. S.-owned Roosevelt Lines. Last year this expansion became marked. Shippingman Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate...
Only last week did this deal receive its official confirmation. Kermit Roosevelt, John M. Franklin and Basil Harris became vice presidents of I. M. M., while all three and lanky, yacht-fond Vincent Astor were made directors, marking the passing of control to the Roosevelt interests. Still president of I. M. M. is Philip Albright Small Franklin, probably pleased to have his company controlled by his son and friends...
...wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
...father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady of Scandal. Also in the play, also fresh from Hollywood, is Montagu Love...
Chapin took no interest in his trial or in the formidable defense counsel, headed by George Woodward Wickersham, whom the court appointed. He pleaded guilty, took a sentence of 20-years-to-life. Immediately Prisoner Chapin was made editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin. At the instance of Author Basil King he wrote his book, Charles Chapin's Story. But the real substance of his prison life has been his gardening. First with his tobacco money, later with outside help (including a check every month from onetime Reporter Cobb), he set out his beautifully landscaped plots...