Word: cosden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...averse to all forms of effort that he sometimes walks across the goal line to make a touchdown if there are no tacklers near him. Choate's guards are Cubans: Miguel Mendoza y Kindelan and Eneas Antonio Freyre de Andrede. Right tackle is Oilman Joshua Cosden's son Joshua Jr. Last week Choate finished its season with its 12th victory in a row, 40 to 7, against Kent...
...prisoners to escape. He had been posing as a windshield-wiper salesman. In his sample case was found another gun. Up to 1929, Arthur Barry had robbed rich Long Island and Connecticut homes of $2,000,000 in jewels. Among his victims were the first Mrs. Clarence Mackay, Joshua Cosden, Mr. & Mrs. Jesse Livermore. While robbing the Livermore bedroom, suave Arthur Barry courteously lit a cigaret for Mrs. Livermore, refrained from taking a ring which she particularly fancied, hoped it would bring her luck...
...ante Standard. It was difficult to picture these Philadelphians in the new order of things. The gods of the new independents were the Phillips Brothers, dashing Harry Ford Sinclair and his quieter brother Earle, Pennsylvania-born William Grove Skelly, cocky Wirt Franklin, lavish Ernest Whitworth Marland. Joshua S. Cosden who would bet on anything...
...mostly to the Mayor's own testimony, poking him on weak spots in his explanations. The Mayor wriggled painfully when, for example, the Governor took up the $26,000 in bonds the Mayor had received from J. A. Sisto & Co., brokers, as profits from a speculative pool in Cosden Oil Stock: Governor Roosevelt: Practically what happened was they said to you, "We'll put you into the Cosden pool. It won't cost you anything. . . ." Now how many shares did you think you were getting? Mayor Walker (flustered): I don't know that...
Mayor Walker admitted that he had "many kind friends" who did him unsolicited favors, but denied Broker Sisto had kept him in ignorance of the investment. He said that had the Cosden Oil pool lost money he would have borne his part of the loss. He did not receive the bonds in his car but in his home while dressing for dinner. The gift had no connection with the establishment of the Board of Taxicab Control. He suggested that had he really wished to graft from the Parmelee Company he could have gotten much more than $26,535 by failing...