Word: coals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promoter, chairman of the Association of British Creditors of Russia ($900,000,000), bitter antiCommunist; of pneumonia; in London. After the Russian revolution he plotted, fought, howled in vain for his Russo-Asiatic Consolidated Mining Trust's $280,000,000 stake in Russian copper, zinc, lead and coal. In 1923 he recouped by getting a monopoly on Turkish imports and exports. Plump, dapper and grey, he sat behind David Lloyd George at The Hague as his adviser on Russian economics...
...terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...
...morning they watched precious sacks of coal drop down a crevice, hover a moment on the brash ice, then sink into the Antarctic...
...Shadow. Opens with a low, sinister chuckle by the Shadow, who is anonymous and advertises Blue Coal. Virtue always triumphs over dastardly deeds...
...when in Bay Front Park he was hit in the abdomen by a bullet aimed by Assassin Joe Zangara at President-elect Roosevelt (TIME, Feb. 27). Born in Bohemia, Cermak was taken to the U. S. when one year old. He drove a mule in Illinois coal mines before he was 12. In Chicago he started as a teamster, built up his own trucking company, expanded into real estate and politics. A favorite candidate around the stockyards, he rose to be President of the Cook County Commissioners. His defeat of Republican William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson for Mayor...