Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speedy and accurate was he that naval surgeons marveled to see how a pair of human eyes could improve in 48 hours. They questioned the candidate, soon confused him, discovered the deceit. Candidate Rupp and his employe were soon arrested, lodged in a police cell under $2,000 bond, charged with attempting to defraud the U. S. out of a $12,000 education at its Naval Academy...
...twisted, corrupted, diseased, poisoned, fiendish mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin" was last week isolated and thus described by Mississippi's Governor Theodore Gilmore Bilbo in a formal address to the State Legislature. Governor Bilbo had been charged with attempting to peddle a Mississippi bond issue to a Nashville, Tenn. bond house, at a loss to his State of $85,000 and contrary to law. In a 5,000-word message he denied the charge. The same message asked each legislator to donate one goldfish for the fish pool at the Governor's mansion. Said Governor...
Rumor added that Commonwealth & Southern planned also, to trade shares with Birmingham Electric Co., of Alabama, one of the Electric Bond & Share group...
...Bond & Share Family. Reports said that potent Electric Bond & Share Co., which lately voted shareholders rights to subscribe to some $66,000,000 of new stock, planned to form a billion-dollar company to hold stocks of Electric Power & Light, National Power & Light, American Power & Light, American & Foreign Power, American Superpower, American & Foreign Power, though a Bond & Share company, has little community of interest with the other rumorees, carries on only abroad. Superpower, a Bonbright & Co., child, does extraordinarily well as it is. The other three rumorees, however, are direct, lineal descendants in the Bond & Share genealogy of holding companies...
...Ohio last week, when he heard that in Washington his son and namesake, who established an alcoholic reputation upon his recent return from Panama (TIME, April 22), had driven an automobile into a truck, been arrested for driving while under the influence of narcotics, and was at large under bond. Said Senator Heflin: "I am deeply pained . . . to learn that my son has been drinking again. . . . My enemies who are willing to exploit my son in the newspapers . . . will yet see him resist the temptations . . . and be what his mother prayed he would be and what I expect...