Word: biddinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the bidding thus reopened, another contestant was expected to enter the fight. He is Joseph Edward Sheedy, smart vice president of U. S. Lines, the man who got Banker Chapman of Chicago into the shipping business, who has been running U. S. Lines for him for two years, and...
"Unless this campaign has been an act of unbelievable stupidity, it is primarily an attempt to perpetuate the reign of terror that the Kansas City Star is determined to maintain. ... I can prove that the Star has deliberately colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful...
Spearhead of the independence movement in the U. S. during recent months has been Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and chief of a special independence mission for that purpose to the U. S. Like rivals who would not let each other out of their sight, Mr. Quezon and...
Suit was brought in London against Mrs. Alfred Noyes, wife of the poet, by a Mrs. Lillian Westby, who wanted $4,160 for her services in bidding up a rare manuscript, the Bedford Book of Hours, then owned by Mrs. Noyes, in an auction in July, 1929, against an agent...
All the while, the Standard was functioning as Marcus Daly's mouthpiece; not to glorify its publisher but to lambaste Clark. One of Daly's consuming desires was to make Anaconda the capital of Montana. Clark opposed him, and won: the capital went to Helena. Thereafter Publisher Daly...