Word: firmness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quentin, Calif., where inmates are enabled to take extension work in the State University at Berkeley by correspondence. There Warden James Bernard Holohan, a firm-fisted 200-pounder, guards over 5,000 inmates. Among them are Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), killer of his common law wife, now chief of the convict fire department; Clara Phillips, who killed a lady intimate of her husband with a hammer; famed Thomas J. Mooney and Warren Billings, sent up for life from San Francisco on evidence since found to be perjured. Currently famed is Mrs. Frances Leano, for whom San Quentin can provide...
...Vimy. He, deftly sidestepping, punctiliously bowed to irrepressible "Baby Betty," Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, only granddaughter and unspoiled darling of George V. When His Majesty followed the babe it was seen at once that he did look younger. His cheeks were a breeze-tanned brown. Faultlessly groomed, firm of step and with a new vitality of movement, the King-Emperor escorted Queen Mary to the waiting royal Daimler. Already Baby Betty had plumped into the back seat. "Come along, Ganpa!" piped...
...elected for a term of only one year, the Most Worshipful the Lord Mayor is expected to spend three times his salary of $50,000 in banquets, pageants, shows. The new Lord Mayor, round and smiling Sir William Waterlow (not Waterloo), joint head of the potent printing firm of Waterlow & Sons, Ltd., spent at least $25,000 of his "pay" last week...
Liquidate Mr. Lamont tomorrow, and many an achievement of his 18 years with Morgan would have a historic value. To him came the financing of the New York Central Railroad and he is today the firm's chief railroad adviser. To him came most of the overseas muddles into which its vast foreign interests plunged the Morgan house. In China (the Consortium), Mexico (International Committee), France (Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan), Austria (1923 joint loan), he has been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles...
...assistant United States attorney of the Southern district of New York; in the following two years, he was assistant district attorney of New York county. After being a councilman in the Aldermanic Police. Investigation of New York City for a year, he became a member of the law firm of Root, Clark, Buckner, and Howland. In 1925 he was appointed by President Coolidge as United States district attorney for the Southern district of New York. He is a member of the New York State, New York Company, and American Bar Associations...