Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year since Samuel Insull fled U. S. justice for Athens. It is nearly two years since the topless towers of Insulldom toppled. But reverberations of the mightiest crash of the Depression still rumble ominously back & forth across the western world. Last week Insull echoes were again rolling heavily around Chicago: ¶ To be on hand for the rebirth of the Insullated Chicago Civic Opera Company this week (see p. 18), Rosa Raisa and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, required cash advances for traveling expenses. Just before the opening Soprano Raisa told" the story...
...would tell them how much paper profit he had made them. One year he said their profit was $500,000 - 100% on their investment. Rosa Raisa wanted to cash in then & there but Insull would not hear of it. The stock was not delivered to them until after the crash and then with the stipulation that it must not be sold. After they refused to buy more Insull stock, she said last week, both she and her husband were banned from the opera company and "life was made a Hell for us." And many another old Chicago star last week...
...King!" gasped a pink-cheeked old lady in a black bonnet as Air man Smith disappeared, his backfiring motor carrying him over Marble Arch to plunk down safely in Hyde Park. Said the King, according to Palace officials: "I saw it from a window. I thought it would crash either on the roof or in the courtyard." ¶Day before, hard by Marble Arch, Their Majesties inspected London's new est luxury hotel, The Cumberland, which opened last week boasting 1,000 air-conditioned bedrooms.* To save George V from death by pneumonia his Bucking ham bedroom...
Pudgy, beer-bibbing Critic Henry Louis Mencken led an outraged charge by members of the "Saturday Night Club" upon two drunks who, loudly denouncing War, tried to crash into the club's meeting in the back room of a Baltimore restaurant. With Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Biologist Raymond Pearl, Conductor Gustav Strube at his heels, Critic Mencken chased the rowdies to the street, collared them, had them jailed overnight. Next day he made them sign a release, crowed: "If they're Communists I don't trust them. They'll go back to Washington and claim they...
...planes. Rex Martin, directing air navigation, has beetling black Groucho Marx eyebrows and a Mexican bandit mustache, slightly askew, which disguise a gentle, genial manner. His appearance last week was even more arresting because of a towering metal-&-leather collar which holds together a neck broken in a crash last September near Washington. Director Vidal was in the plane before it took off, decided to get out and go to the movies instead...