Word: emanuele
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, the chain-letter fever burned in Denver and a few other infected areas in the West. By last week, it had become a nationwide epidemic. Even Alfred Emanuel Smith, in his two-thirds-empty Empire State Building, received 1,000 letters. He waste-basketed all except one which contained a dime. President Roosevelt received 200, sent them to Postmaster General Farley, whose postal service in many a city seemed about to collapse under the weight of chain mail. The Post Office has ruled chain letters illegal but it was waggishly suggested that if the craze would only last...
...Emanuel ("Manny") Rosenbaum has been a member of the Chicago Board of Trade since 1896. A loud, baldish Jew of 60, he likes to boast of the fact that...
...smash came. Shrewd Emanuel Rosenbaum had timed his movements skillfully. He knew the Board of Trade must sooner or later carry out its rules which call for suspension of any member unable to meet his obligations. When President Boylan of the Board of Trade summoned the Board's directors to a secret meeting, they found Mr. Rosenbaum one jump ahead of them. He had secured an injunction to restrain the Board from suspending his company on the grounds that suspension would force a reckless liquidation of the company's holdings, knock the bottom out of the grain market...
...wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...
...Grant Wood picture that was not to be seen there was the Daughters of the Revolution, an oblong panel of three grim-faced spectacled spinsters standing in front of a framed engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month when it was released...