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...tenor as lazy as he was handsome. Third was George Washington Young, millionaire president of U. S. Mortgage & Trust Co., so lavish in his courtship that once when Nordica was singing on the Pacific Coast and he was in Manhattan he hired a messenger boy to take her an emerald necklace clear across the continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Legend in Lindsborg | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

When Devonshire heard that Their Majesties were coming, he did, however, have the bathroom at Compton Place repainted. Fabulously rich, he owns an emerald two inches long, 186,000 acres, palaces galore. Last week Their Majesties, who are far from considering their Daimler limousine a foul, stinking thing, motored down to Compton Place where a brand new police box had been established. A special post office was put into operation to handle the Royal mail. Apart from this George V made no changes or modernizations in archaic Compton Place except to have installed his favorite seven-valve (tube) radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Jubilee | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

...EMERALD MURDER TRAP-Jackson Gregory-Scribner ($2). Wicked old Paradene's trap was not long empty; it caught more than he wanted, because of Mr. Paul Savoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Murders of the Month: Jul. 2, 1934 | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

...worth $500 a year ... I will be inclined to grant . . . another year's subscription gratis." As a postscript he added: "I shall take occasion very frequently in the columns of the Watchtower to state my views as to the status of the Idaho Copper and Colombia Emerald Companies. I think what I shall have to say will prove of great interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rice Resumes | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

Idaho Copper went into receivership in 1929, was pulled out, then slipped in again in 1932. Its stock last sold in 1931 at 2/5 of 1? a share. Its production is nil. Colombia Emerald has some emeralds but its mine in the Department of Boyaca, Colombia is closed and its shares were lately quoted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Rice Resumes | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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