Word: carriere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plaintiff was attractive Mrs. Germaine Torrence, 28, whose husband Herbert, 36, a mail carrier tired from lugging Christmas mails, paused at a tavern during the holidays to have a few beers. Subsequently he stopped at a package store for wine and whiskey and then went home and gave his wife such a beating that she was "sick, sore, lame and disordered and did suffer a fractured nose." Mrs. Torrence is now back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting...
...Burton was president of his high-school class and editor of the student magazine. From his experience as newspaper carrier he evolved a more efficient scheme for handling deliveries, soon became a factotum in the newspaper office. As assistant in the public library, to him for advice came worried clubwomen with literary papers to write; soon he had a strictly private little business of ghostwriting. By the time he had graduated from high-school no one was surprised that hardworking, bright young Burton Rascoe had decided to go on to the University of Chicago...
Minneapolis & St. Louis went into receivership in 1923, was ordered sold in 1929. Old bondholders have not been willing to put up the cash necessary to put through a reorganization. RFChairman Jesse Jones was all ready to partition the fallen carrier among other western railroads (TIME, Sept. 23, 1935), but that plan involved abandonment of 500 miles of line. The communities which would lose their railroad put screws on their Congressmen, who have thus far blocked the Jones partition plan. Old Frederick Henry Prince, who has bought and sold a railroad or two in his 77 crotchety years, also...
...Lehigh Valley Railroad, whose 1,300 mi. of track in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey run through some of the finest scenery and richest anthracite resources in the U. S., received 26% more from coal shipments last year than in 1935. Since the Lehigh is primarily a coal-carrier, this meant Recovery. With coal & steel booming on merrily, last week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived...
Sure he was on the right track, Publisher Abell spread himself more & more for stories. He ran special trains from Washington with Government news, used express riders and carrier pigeons to speed his copy, foreshadowed modern press associations by cooperating with other newspapers for the good of all. When the "magnetic telegraph" of Samuel Finley Breese Morse became practical in 1844. Mr. Abell soon woke up to its value, put in a newswire...