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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowing why the Countess Johanna Von Mikes will not marry him. Outside Albania the situation is not understood, owing to lack of knowledge regarding Albanian marriage laws and customs. I lived in Albania-in Tirana from 1926 to 1928-and Achmet's difficulties with Shefqut Bey Elbassani were common knowledge at that time. The Countess will not marry Achmet because he is already married. This is no 'deterrent to another marriage- from his point of view. He is a Moslem...
...been similarly terrorized and mulcted. The new champion was Thomas Edmund Dewey, 34, for 18 months the head and heart of New York City's famed Dewey racket investigation. Tweed to Walker, Ever since the State Legislature in 1853 stripped police-appointing powers from the city's Common Council (called "The Forty Thieves") and set up a Board of Police Commissioners, the history of New York City has been studded with drives against crime and corruption. In 1871 it was Samuel Tilden versus Boss Tweed, in the early 1900's Rev. Charles Parkhurst versus Boss Richard Croker...
...found the Act did not distinguish be tween the jurisdiction of Federal and State courts, recommended an omnibus code of U. S. law to include the Constitution, common law, Federal statutes and the laws of the several States which might arise in U. S. courts. Congress did nothing...
...Railway, the 600-mi. model coal road built by the late Standard Oilman Henry Huttleston Rogers in the days of Roosevelt I (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). In Manhattan, Adrian Hoffman Larkin, Virginian Board Chairman and trustee of the Rogers estate, laconically announced that 75% of the Virginian's common stock had been sold to interests identified with Andrew William Mellon. The consideration, said Mr. Larkin, was in excess of $31,000,000. Actual purchaser was a group headed by Koppers Co., Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates and First Boston Corp. The presence of First Boston (see p. 52) irr what...
...exchange old for new on a share for share basis plus $2 in cash. Thus further discomfited in his struggle for a voice in Tide Water was Jean Paul Getty (TIME, Nov. 30), whose interest in the company (more than 25% directly and indirectly) is almost wholly in common stock, whose voting rights will be diluted by the new preferred. ¶ Proud of a 1936 record is President Edwin B. Reeser of Barnsdall Oil Co. He discovered more new oil per share of stock (50 bbl.) than any other oilman in the U. S. In partnership with Humble Oil. Barnsdall...