Word: creel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lights of the Potomac's bridges and the distant dome of the Capitol, she has entertained nearly every Democratic Senator in the Capitol, all the important Ambassadors and many another bigwig, taking particular delight in pitting conservatives and liberals, such as Justice Roberts and Heywood Broun, or George Creel and David Lawrence...
...experts did not take in an Internal Revenue agent in Miami named Charles Williamson Clarke, who spent nearly three years on the Ringling case. "Mr. John" says Revenuer Clarke now knows more about the circus business than he does. Since last year Assistant U. S. Attorney James Randall Creel in Manhattan has been preparing the 400 pages of indictments and the mass of evidence to be used when the case goes to trial. Prosecutor Creel has also become something of a circus expert, though at Harvard (Class of 1927) he won a prize for a thesis on "The Monism...
According to Messrs. Clarke & Creel, the Ringling partnership took in $53,400,000 from 1918 through 1932, an average of about $3,500,000 annually. It paid out about $42,600,000, leaving net profits of nearly $10,800.000, an average of about $720,000 annually. The Government's figures showed that in only four years were earnings less than $500,000, in two other years more than $1,000,000. However, the people who made out the Ringling tax returns claimed the picture was much darker, reporting net profits for the 15 years...
...rate poet spoiled to make a third-rate revolutionary?" Was John Reed simply a little more highly-flavored liberal than the run of his friends, who had just a little more adventurousness and a little more guts, so that he went the whole hog instead of signing up for Creel's Committee for Public Information? Was he sinsere or was he just too romantic to be sensible...
...with the small number of guests the wedding cake, nicely matched to the bride's pink gown, came to $7 per slice. Only one private car was needed to carry the Washington delegation, which included Senator James J. Davis, U. S. Treasurer William A. Julian, Joseph Tumulty, George Creel, White House Secretary Stephen T. ("Steve") Early. At the reception they mingled with Bernard Baruch, Banker Sidney J. Weinberg, Publisher Ogden Reid, Mrs. Billie Burke Ziegfeld...