Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Juan. Another said there were. "The crew was cowardly," blurted an angry survivor. Capt. H. O. Bleumchen of the Dodd testified: "The San Juan cut right across our path. Then I heard her three bells [reverse signal]. If she had gone on, there'd have been no crash...
Just six weeks after Clarke Bros., private bankers, failed in Manhattan (TIME. July 22), the four partners appeared before this double court, pleaded guilty, were sentenced. James Rae Clarke, senior partner, assumed full responsibility for the crash. He was sentenced by the Federal Judge to eight years in the overcrowded Atlanta penitentiary for using the mails to defraud and for conspiracy. Philip L. Clarke, John R. Bouker and Hudson Clarke Jr. each received a sentence of one year, one day. The state judge imposed the same penalties but suspended sentence declaring that the Federal sentences served the cause of justice...
...sentences were no heavier because the bankers concealed no assets, gave up their entire personal property, some $223,000, for the benefit of the depositors. Moreover it was acknowledged that the junior partners, although guilty parties, had gained little or nothing personally from the crash which was attributed mainly to bad banking...
Fred Stone, still recuperating from his airplane crash of last August, visited the Hollywood ranch of his good friend and theatrical understudy, Funnyman Will Rogers. To show his physical fitness he rode a bicycle, danced a jig, told watching reporters that in November he would return to Broadway for a new show, Ripples. Playing with him in her first appearance will be Paula Stone, his 17-year-old daughter. Dorothy Stone, his 19-year-old, hurried to Manhattan last week to replace Ruby Keeler Jolson, ill, in Show Girl (TIME...
Henry Ford, sitting in his shirtsleeves on the porch of his Wayside Inn at Sudbury, Mass., heard a crash as three automobiles and a bus collided, burst into flames. He ran to the wreck, helped extract two men, a boy and three other persons badly burned...