Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mitchell's grave charges was Mr. Mitchell. A small-town lawyer from Springfield, Mo., he became "the original Roosevelt man in Missouri," was rewarded after the New Deal's victory by being made the biggest Missourian in the Roosevelt official family. Early last autumn, Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper came to the conclusion that he and Mr. Mitchell could not get along, asked for his resignation. As a sop, Mr. Mitchell was offered a job in the graveyard of RFC's legal department or as Minister to Rumania. But Mr. Mitchell did not want to leave...
...afternoon of March 27 a neat little Chinese student in blue serge suit, brown tie and rimless octagonal spectacles was seen sprinting for dear life across the campus of Northeastern Oklahoma State Teachers College at Tahlequah. Daniel Shaw (born Hing Sieu) had traveled all the way from Hongkong in 1931 to study in the U. S., had wandered through colleges in Walla Walla, Wash.. San Francisco, Lynn, Mass., Cicero, Ill. and Lexington, Ky., trying to make up his mind whether to be a missionary or a diplomat. Finally he ended up in Tahlequah to study American Indian lore...
Last week, still looking a little surprised, Daniel Shaw appeared at the trial of dark, thin-lipped, high-cheek-boned Lois Thompson, 18, charged with assault with intent to kill. Calm as her Cherokee ancestors, Lois Thompson told her story. Last winter she had refused Daniel Shaw a dance date. Shortly thereafter came the first of a series of extortion notes, threatening her with death unless she handed over $3,000. Daniel Shaw was the gang's agent. On the afternoon of March 27 he had set out to kidnap or kill her. She had decided to kill...
...copper from the Kennecott district Indians in the 18th Century to cast a bell. A hundred years later two grizzled sourdoughs stumbled upon what looked like grass on the mountainside at Kennecott, found pure copper ore. A taciturn young engineer named Stephen Birch bought their claims. With backing from Daniel Guggenheim, a railroad was pushed up the Copper River Valley, and the Kennecott mine opened in 1911. The first year of operation (1912), more than $20,000,000 in copper rolled down the rails to Tidewater. In 1915 Kennecott Copper Corp., a holding company, was organized to take over...
Paramount did not go down without a struggle. There was nothing fundamentally wrong with its first & foremost function- making, distributing and exhibiting films. Its troubles were almost wholly financial. And in 1931 its bankers cajoled John Daniel Hertz into taking the Paramount command as chairman of the finance committee. The thickset, sinewy Chicago financier had been making half-hearted attempts to retire since 1926 when he sold his Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. to General Motors for more than a few millions...