Word: collections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalism, that of Joseph Pulitzer shines brightest and most familiar. Dull indeed is the cub reporter who cannot recite the story of the gangling, weak-eyed boy of 17 who, though no "poor immigrant," shrewdly slipped overboard from his ship in Boston Harbor and swam ashore to collect for himself the bounty on his Civil War enlistment; of the taller, young ex-soldier who rode brakerods from New York to St. Louis, in whose friendly German atmosphere he made his way as a journalist; of how he married Kate Davis, daughter of a distant cousin of the late, great Jefferson...
...tactics which both Fascists and Communists have been successfully using. Fascists used every tactic to delay passage of the bill, but lost 300 to 160. Stiffly goosestepping from the room the Fascists marched out, their right arms raised in salute, shouting HOCH! HOCH! HOCH!!! They paused long enough to collect their full pay for the month of February...
...Lady Houston's first spectacular gesture. Shortly before his death in 1926, and in anticipation of heavy inheritance taxes ("death duties"), Sir Robert moved their home to the Isle of Jersey whose inhabitants are generally exempt from such taxes. In a protracted legal wrangle the Government tried to collect the taxes from the widow. Adjudged insane, Lady Houston engaged a staff of alienists to prove the contrary. Then one day she lunched with Winston Churchill (then Chancellor of the Exchequer) and handed him a check for ?1,500,000-the amount of the taxes...
...Litsinger's story: He loaned the money to Mrs. Blacklidge because he had known her for 20 years and understood that she needed it to collect a $90,000 "estate" which her husband had accumulated in some vague transaction. He went to Springfield with his nephew, sat in the hotel lobby. The first he knew about the faro game was when his kinsman rushed up agitatedly, crying: "Uncle Ed, we've been robbed!" Young Mr. Litsinger explained that when he had entered the gambling room three men had muscled the cash away from him, Mrs. Blacklidge had looked...
...Marquess of Cambridge collects wealthy Americans. Mr. & Mrs. Victor Emanuel collect race horses, also own a hunter which once belonged to the Prince of Wales...