Word: block
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Still further has commercialism invaded the Gold Coast with the two building operations that are to be carried on this fall. One has already been started at the corner of Dunster and Mt. Auburn Streets, and work on the other which is to occupy the central part of the block across Bow Street from Russell Annex and Westmorley. The first of these two buildings of which the cellar is already excavated, will be one story in height, and will have a reincarnation of the "Splendid Restaurant," recently situated on Harvard Square...
...Government traced C00043203, a $10,000 Liberty bond, to the 1922 private brokerage account of onetime (1921-25) Alien Property Custodian Thomas Woodnutt Miller. It was further shown that this bond was one of a $441,000 block which Richard Merton, German metals potentate, had said he paid to the late John T. King in 1921 for speeding through his claim to seven million dollars' worth of War-seized stock of the American Metal Co. Through witnesses, bonds, and documents Prosecutor Emory R. Buckner has succeeded in tracing a total of $49,000 to Colonel Miller...
Finally, Prosecutor Buckner rounded out his case against Harry M. Daugherty by showing that a $40,000 block of the bonds handed by Herr Merton to Mr. King was sent to Otis & Co., Cleveland brokers, and that the proceeds were credited to Mr. Daugherty's account in his brother's Washington Court House bank...
...idea to the people in the same way that you sell them any other commodity, from a Liberty Bond to a break and our politicians are the brokers who put through the sale. Our political brokers even deal in futures, and have marketed to the country a large block of that somewhat speculative stock known as "America's entry into the League of Nations," when, as issued...
...some domestic dictator. Nor does one dare to disagree with Mr. Abbott on this point. There will come a time when politicians will be purloined of their progress and heads will fall before the aggressive decisions of a representative to that permanent future of governmental change the chopping block...