Word: beaumont
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squire in the big house up on the hill to sell them off for a spot of ready cash. The 27 titles up for sale last week were part of a collection bought purely as investments in the 19th century by a shrewd old Essex solicitor named Joseph Beaumont...
...whole treaty with the other five nations). West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer decided the time had come to make his own position explicit and public. Despite Adenauer's repeated affirmations of unyielding support of EDC. France announced that it would send Foreign Under Secretary Guerin de Beaumont to see him about EDC "compromise," apparently under the illusion that Der Alte might still be cajoled...
...week's end, piqued by Adenauer's blunt remarks, Premier Mendes-France called off the De Beaumont mission...
...company, the bankrupt Texas Mutual Co. Two appeals court justices accused Texas Mutual of "Ponzi-like manipulations" and called the State Insurance Commission guilty of "fraud if not criminal laxity" for not doing anything about it. Texas Mutual was organized in 1949 by Leslie Lowry, ex-mayor of Beaumont (ousted by recall), and his brother Paul. They started with $500 of their own cash and $19,500 borrowed. To expand their assets, said the court, the Lowry boys bought (with notes, no cash) a shabby, one-story building in Beaumont for $100,000, had three friends appraise...
RICHARD N. MASON Beaumont, Texas...