Word: conning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Leguia: 'T am disposed to bow to any decision of armed forces. . . . Now those who take over the power will see the bitter difficulties of government." General Manuel Maria Ponce took com mand of the revolutionary junta. President Leguia sent an intimate, con soling message to his three daughters dis mayed at Chosica, a resort 30 miles from Lima. His two sons and he entered a swift motor car, sped to Callao, boarded Peru's other cruiser, Almirante Gran, sailed for Panama, where he had prudently arranged passage for Europe on a commercial boat...
Nebraska's Howard Sirs: The undersigned are either subscribers or readers of TIME, and would be pleased to have a report on Edgar Howard, member of the House of Representatives from Nebraska's Third Con gressional District...
...Parliamentary precincts." Suspended, they might not resume their seats until this week. It was even said that at the next election the Labor Party will' refuse to let Mr. Beckett run again as one of their candidates, so furious were mem bers of that party at his unseemly con duct...
...Diocese of New York has been seeking a complaisant successor. Last week he received a harsh snub from Dr. Alexander Griswold Cummins, rector of Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 61, editor of the denominationally liberal Chronicle (monthly) who had been suggested for the post. Dr. Cummins con siders Bishop Manning theocratic. Said he: "I have no desire to be errand boy for Bishop Manning or any other bishop." Missouri. In the presence of ten bishops William Scarlett, 46, dean of Christ Church Cathedral, St. Louis, last week was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Missouri. Before his deanship at Christ Church...
...until last week Nicholas Frederic managed it virtually alone. The size and importance of the Brady estate can perhaps best be apprehended by a cursory list of the companies of which Nicholas was director. Important among these was Consolidated Gas Co. of New York (Anthony, long interested in Con. Gas, was largely responsible for the installation there of his friend George Bruce Cortelyou as president) and Chrysler Corp. (When Walter P. Chrysler was founding his since famed company it was Brady estate money which practically financed his project.) Other companies of which Nicholas was a director were Anaconda Copper Mining...