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When the picture was half finished, faithful Hendrickje Stoffels (much more plump in life than in the film) died. Rembrandt was too affected to finish it. In the summer of 1665 Harmen Becker, a pawn broker of Amsterdam, came to press the painter for 537 guilders. Pawnbroker Becker discovered in the studio the still unfinished picture of Juno. Pawnbroker Becker had an eye. He promised to take something off Rembrandt's debt if Juno were finished and turned over to him. Rembrandt complied and, once delivered to Pawnbroker Becker, Juno disappeared for many years...
...Croker, in the late 90's Theodore Roosevelt versus gamblers and scofflaw saloonkeepers, in 1902-09 William Travers Jerome versus vice and gambling, in 1905 Charles Evans Hughes versus insurance companies. Charles S. Whitman's sensational exposure of official corruption in his prosecution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal in 1912 put Whitman in the Governor's chair. In 1930 Judge Samuel Seabury exposed the magistrates' courts and the next year started the disclosures which ran Mayor Jimmy Walker out of town. Despite these periodic spasms of civic indignation, crime...
...arguments existed as to who would fire No. 21, the honor went to George P. Becker, construction superintendent of the F. S. Payne (elevator) Co. of Cambridge, Mass., whose hobby is stoking locomotives...
...Chicago, glib, young polo-playing Charles Foster Glore, president of Chicago Corp. as well as a partner in the brokerage house of Field, Glore & Co., told newshawks that Chicago Corp., an investment company, and A. G. Becker & Co., investment bankers, had bought Continental Illinois National Bank's holdings in Middle West Corp. Chicago Corp. takes three-fifths of the purchase, Becker & Co the rest. The price: $12 a share, giving Continental, in which Chicago Corp. has large holdings, a small profit on its once forlorn investment in Middle West Corp...
Died. Louis William ("Bridgie") Webber, 59, Manhattan gambler who turned State's evidence in 1912 to convict Manhattan Police Lieut. Charles Becker and four gunmen-"Lefty" Louis Rosenberg, Harry ("Gyp the Blood") Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago" Frank Cirofici-of murdering Gambler Herman Rosenthal; of peritonitis; on the 21st anniversary of Becker's electrocution; in Passaic, N. J., where for 22 years he had managed a paper-box factory...