Word: eight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Should it be your intention, however, to issue this religious document, we would call to your attention a statement made by one of your predecessors, Thomas Jefferson, who, during his eight years as Chief Executive refused to issue religious proclamations. He said...
Heavily in debt last week was Albert Bacon Fall, bribe-taking Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both...
...Minneapolis, independent, 36, with little money but a shrewd knowledge and liking of public utilities. His plan: to own and operate public utilities. His method of finance: selling Foshay securities to the public. Within one year he owned public utilities in Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, was making money. Eight years later his holdings were estimated at $10,000,000 and he sold to Eastern buyers. Immediately he started another chain of utilities which in 1927 was appraised at $25,000,000 and which again Mr. Foshay sold to the East. His last chain of public utilities, operated in twelve...
Sued for Divorce. Charles S. Mott, of Flint, Mich., General Motors vice-president* by Mrs Dee Van Balkom Mott, his bride of eight months. Grounds: incompatibility. She is his third wife, he her second husband
...author's usual sphere of influence. The implications of his economic theories cannot well help being too much for the treatment afforded by the hundred or so pages allowed this section of the book, and, after all, who is to tell whether mankind is more happy working eight hours a day on a production line or tolling sixteen on the hereditary farm? True it is, as Mr. O'Brien points out, that machines are becoming the masters of their operatives, but are these men worse off than their ancestors who maintained life only at the pleasure of seven-year-locusts...