Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Canada's Governor General Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, ninth Earl of Bessborough, in England on leave, tried to catch a drunken monkey on his Hampshire estate by swooping on it in an airplane, dropping a net. The monkey, which had taken to the Earl's whiskey, escaped in the underbrush...
...Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried small arms and machine-guns...
Spectacular as is the Government's effort to convict one Manhattan big banker of tax evasion, not so spectacular is it as another which last week was suggested: an effort to catch Andrew William Mellon for tax evasion. Louis T. McFadden, Congressman from Pennsylvania, charged in the House that Mr. Mellon in 1931 had sold 60,000 shares of Western Public Service, and 123,000 shares of Pittsburgh Coal to establish losses of $6,700,000, had through a Mellon-owned corporation repurchased them 31 days after the sale. Said Attorney General Cummings: "The charges are serious...
...back the reopened Cleveland banks "to the limit." This was no great news to most of Cleveland's businessmen. They had taken it for granted. The run had been staged chiefly by small depositors, among whom alleged malicious reports had been spread. Detectives scoured the city hoping to catch and pillory the gossipers...
Saki's comedy concerns a young English gentleman heir to a large estate who is about to inherit his legacy. Matters are hindered by the presence of his mother, a domineering character in the county-seat where the story takes place. There are four young ladies after the youthful "catch," and on this point the comedy's humorous confusion turns...