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...when Franklin Roosevelt was asked to run for governor in 1928, "he owed a large sum of money to the Warm Springs Foundation,"* and that John J. Raskob promised to take care of it. "I just wish we had a Raskob in the Republican Party," said Dewey. Candidate Hanley betook himself down to Wall Street on a Sunday afternoon, had himself photographed on the deserted street looking at the imposing facade of Lehman Brothers, the family investment house in which his opponent, Senator Herbert Lehman, was once a partner. "This is very interesting to me, for a poor...
Harry Bridges knotted-a brown-and-yellow necktie around his matchstick neck one day and betook himself to San Francisco's federal court. "It's my homestretch tie," Harry explained. "It has never failed me in the homestretch...
...scion of one of Rio's best families, Chief Cashier Nelson de Almeida Cardoso, he was charged with having embezzled the funds through a tricky system of interoffice bookkeeping entries. Just after auditors spotted the shortage in a routine year-end checkup, Accountant Pimenta disappeared. Cashier Cardoso betook himself to a Rio hospital where he was reported resting under the care of a staff physician, his brother...
...Czar Ivan now betook himself ... to an open space in the suburbs [of Great Novgorod] and ordered his men to bring before him all the boyars, commercial magnates, and elders whom they had arrested, together with their wives and.'children; and here, before his eyes [they] were burnt with red-hot instruments of torture, and then . . . bound to horses and sleighs, dragged to the river . . . and thrown into the water. Women and children . . . were tied together and likewise thrown [in] . . . The streltsy (sharpshooters) followed the victims, borne by the current along the shore and down the middle...
...scenes are concerned. With a crowd of other supers--all male--from B. U. and the Boston Conservatory of Music, we were herded into a basement room full of electric motors and gen- erators and told to strip. When we had reached suitable stages of deshabille we betook ourselves to the boiler room to receive our apparel...