Word: ets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reporter Harry Thompson Brundidge of the St. Louis Star entered a grand jury room in Chicago last week, remained three hours to elaborate on his printed stories that many Chicago newsmen, like the murdered "Jake" Lingle of the Tribune, are actually, racketeers (TIME. June 23. et seq.). As he emerged Reporter Brundidge was met by a hostile group of Chicago newshawks. What had been his testimony? Reporter Brundidge was sorry, he could not answer. Then Reporter Hilding Johnson of the Herald & Examiner asked...
...Solicitous over Pope Pius XI's recent indisposition (TIME, July 7 et seq.), a Mrs. Margaret Browning of Manhattan wrote him a note and to it pinned a $2 bill. The letter: "Please accept this $2 bill as an offering for a mass, which Your Holiness will kindly celebrate for your health's sake." Last week His Holiness did as Mrs. Browning requested...
...Corp., one day last February. Thus informally, according to Mr. Grace's testimony last week, was negotiated the Bethlehem-youngstown merger, to prevent which Cyrus Stephen Eaton of Cleveland, big Youngstown stockholder, has had his lawyers at work for 16 weeks in an epochal fight (TIME, March 24 et seq.). Mr. Grace's testimony supplied many another lively item last week. He told the court that Bethlehem officers last year received $3,425,000 (6.54% of net earnings before depreciation) in bonuses, that he himself received a bonus of $1,623,000 figured on a mysterious "factor" that...
Standard. The hearings in the Government's suit to restrain Standard Oil Co. of New York from merging with Vacuum Oil Co. (TIME, March 3 et seq.) reached an end last week in Manhattan. Vacuum Director Harold F. Sheets, the last witness, analyzed world petroleum production in 1929. According to his figures. Royal Dutch Shell was far in the lead with 175,992,000 bbl., with Standard of New Jersey second (101,100,000 bbl.). Socony and Vacuum combined were down in sixth place (57,986.000 bbl.). In daily refinery capacity he put Standard of New Jersey first...
...invented love, and men fidelity. No! this is not a paradox. The strongest man hides within him a shamefaced sentimentalist, and the weakest woman a stern realist." Author Paul Géraldy, 45, aphorist. playwright, poet, sometimes called "the de Musset of the 20th Century," is author of Toi et Moi, once largest-selling book of poetry. He has seen many a play of his produced at the Comedie FranÇaise. His wife (stage name: "Mme Lubin") is a onetime opera singer...