Word: compliments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Croker took his wife to Florida for their honeymoon. Years earlier he had bought two miles of Palm Beach waterfront, built the first house in Palm Beach, an immensity named the Wigwam, out of compliment to his Tammany antecedents. As he grew older and more feeble, the Crokers left Palm Beach, spent most of their time in County Dublin. In 1922. while the children of his first marriage were trying desperately to have him declared mentally unfit. ex-Boss Croker died...
...Camp Compliment...
...compliment you on a swell issue of the MARCH OF TIME, which I saw at the Chicago Theatre. Being particularly interested in child welfare, will you tell me whose camp it was that was shown in the second half of the camp pictures? I refer to the charitable camp wherein the children were living in small groups in covered wagons and tepees and lean-tos-the camp where the children were treated as individuals with a view to developing their individual character and responsibility...
Last week in Chicago, Prize Fighter Joe Louis lived up to this dubious compliment. In the presence of 45,000 spectators in Comiskey Park his hands knocked out James J. Braddock in the eighth round of their bout for the heavyweight championship of the world. Major results of Louis' handiwork were two: it made him the first colored man to hold the championship since crafty Jack Johnson allowed himself to be knocked out by Jess Willard in 1915, and it started a new regime in pugilistic finance, by which shrewd, bald-headed Michael Jacobs succeeded Madison Square Garden Corp...
...late Russell Sage paid Western Union the compliment of observing that only once in a lifetime might a man hope to buy its stock below $50 a share. Until 1931 Western Union bulls used to make great play with this remark, which indeed held true for many a lifetime ended before that year. Since then there have been frequent opportunities to buy Western Union at prices well below $50. Its first 1937 dip below that price occurred fortnight ago, when, after dropping steadily from a year's high of $83.50, Western Union slid to $49.50. Last week it broke...