Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died, Timothy J. ("Tim") Crowe, 58, onetime (1926-28) president of Chicago's Sanitary District, while awaiting appeal from his conviction to defraud taxpayers out of $5,000,000 during the Sanitary District's scandalously extravagant era (1926-28); of heart disease; at Williams Bay, Wis. After his trial in February 1932, he had said: "I'll never live to go to jail." Last week the Chicago Hearstpapers revealed that Patrick-Nash, Cook County Democratic boss, whose contracting firm did a big business with the Sanitary District, was forced to settle a Federal tax claim on unreported...
...private finances. Even his friends found it hard to get away from the fact that his official income never exceeded $18,000 per year, which was exempt from Federal taxation; that his tax settlement on $450,000 for three years coincided with the Sanitary District's "whoopee era." After the Sanitary District scandal began to fade most people were ready to forgive and forget whatever part friendly, genial Ed Kelly might have had in it. But since then things have changed. The U.S. had jailed Gangster Al Capone for eleven years for dodging his income tax. Many a good...
...Recouping in part by sales of 'his book Caught Short, he described himself as ''not in the market but under it.'' Eddie Cantor's steepest losses were in Goldman, Sachs Trading Corp., that fabulous creation of Waddill Catchings, loudest prophet of the New Era. Nathan S. Jonas, ousted head of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Eddie Cantor's friend, neighbor and financial mentor, persuaded him to buy a huge block of Goldman, Sachs and put it away. For the next three years Funnyman Cantor devoted his life to making the mere...
...last week that his contract with the company would expire Aug. 31, would not be renewed. From 1918 to 1928 as managing director of National Retail Dry Goods Association he was consulting expert for stores all over the country on how retailing could be done profitably. In the merger era of 1928 he came to the conclusion that department stores like everything else could be profitably run in chains. So 22 stores straddling the U. S. from Seattle to Greensboro. N. C.-largest of them Jordan Marsh of Boston-were merged in Hahn Department Stores, Inc. Lehman Brothers and Prince...
Slyly recalling the high hopes of the Coolidge-Hoover New Era, Democrat Young declared...