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...producing cheaper electric current than was previously possible, thereby introducing electricity to many household and commercial uses. . . . "The unlimited credit given by the public to Insull has brought irreparable calamities and has created many victims, but Insull was in reality a hero fighting against the Depression and a benefactor of mankind." While Greek cheers and hand-clapping by Insull sympathizers rocked the court his three lawyers jostled each other in their efforts to be first to kiss his sunken cheeks and the close of Presiding Judge Panegyrakis' decision refusing extradition was lost in pandemonium. "I am very disappointed," said...
...Rector Ryan reorganized it, gave it a new constitution. Despite criticism from within the church he admitted women to the Graduate School, increased the number of laymen on his faculty, expanded the Graduate School fourfold to 650 students and the University itself to some 1,600. When a rich benefactor de manded the resignation of a professor, Rector Ryan stood up for the professor and lost a potential gift of $1,000,000. Some Catholics regretted that. But during the past few years under Rector Ryan the University income has increased 60%, with a present endowment...
...started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus." he frequently reiterated his motto: ''All horse players must die broke." To friends he sardonically described his paper as "the fireside companion." A benefactor of in- digent racing addicts, he once distributed $250 to a half-dozen impoverished acquaintances while descending eleven stories in an elevator. He carried thin gold-headed canes, wore white spats, checkered waistcoats, spoke of money as "scratch." Suffering from the effects of a sporting banquet, he received a massage the night...
...their extremity, the Geological Survey officials turned to the Geological Society of America. Two years ago that body was astounded to learn that it had inherited $4,225,000. The benefactor was the late Dr. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose, scholarly brother of Pennsyl vania's late famed Republican Boss Boies Penrose...
...crooked milk inspectors, big-time thugs-with 80% convictions. He was in charge of the District Attorney's office in 1923 when Anna Marie ("Dot King") Keenan, Broadway "sweetie," was murdered. For days he withheld from the Press the name of John Kearsley Mitchell, "Dot King's" benefactor, son-in-law of Morgan Partner Edward Townsend Stotes-bury, to save Mitchells family from "needless humiliation and suffering...