Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long and bitter had been Nominee Joseph's controversies with the Supreme Court which reached their climax in the Wemme will case. E. Henry Wemme, rich Portland tentmaker, had had his friend, Mr. Joseph, draw him up an ironbound will bequeathing half his estate to the Christian Science Church and half to heirs in Germany. Thomas Mannix appeared as counsel for those who sought to break the will. When the case came before the Oregon Supreme Court, Mr. Joseph charged that Chief Justice Rand had had a mining deal with Mr. Mannix and was thus disqualified to hear...
...only effective weapon business could draw against Stalin would be an international Capitalist boycott of the Soviet State...
Scholar Price says he first hunted up ancient alphabets, "including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Babylonian cuneiform, Semitic Phoenician, Greek, Hebrew and Roman and sat down to draw far-fetched conclusions...
...with the Havana Post. His function is to lure more U. S. tourists, more U. S. capital to Cuba.* His method: to send writers and artists to Havana. There magnetic Publisher Carl Byoir takes them in hand, makes them see everything, turns them loose to write and draw what they please, confident that the result will be the best type of propaganda for Cuba. Publisher Byoir has frankly assumed the task of exploiting Cuba, frankly admitting that his papers will profit thereby...
...described as the author of Sherlock Holmes. One would think that I had written nothing but detective stories."* Asked if there was a prototype for his celebrated sleuth, said he: "Most certainly there was. He was an Edinburgh doctor under whom I studied. He had an uncanny gift of drawing large inferences from small observations. When I tried to draw a detective, naturally I thought of Dr. Bell and his methods. . . . Watson was just an average man-not really stupid, simply average...