Word: elders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Supreme Court upheld all sentences, except that of the elder Burns. As Chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, (1921-24) Detective Burns was once a Hero. During the court investigation he was pictured as a "villain." The Supreme decision clears him of "villiany" leaves unsullied his record as a world-famed sleuth...
...school, over the dishes at home, in the church choir. Her first job was as entertainer in the local "nickelodeon." Her fame spread locally, she was offered a position at New Haven's Molone's restaurant at the fabulus figure of $50 per week. Meanwhile, her elder sister, Carmela, entered smalltime vaudeville with her contralto voice. Rosa joined forces with her and as the "Ponzillio Sisters" they were favorites on the Keith circuit for three years...
Such men as J. P. Morgan the Elder, Henry Villard (capitalistic father of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of the present Nation, pink weekly), Edward Dean Adams, Grosvenor P. Lowrey (patent attorney for Mr. Edison), Robert L. Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project...
Watchful observers noted that the new deputies, all hand-picked by Il Duce, are nearly all men of elder-middle age. The one exception is 25-year-old Deputy Marcelo Diaz, son of the late Marshal Diaz, "Foch of Italy...
...Catherine, a homely, pious Spanish girl, who had married Henry's elder brother Arthur for political reasons. Arthur died. Catherine failed to give Henry a son. Having natural evidence that this was not his fault, Henry divorced...