Word: firms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their being ordered to roust Mr. Capone and send him away, surveyed a high wall which has been built around the Capone house; reflected upon the quickness and brutality of trigger-fingers from Chicago. Mayor J. N. Lummus Jr., of Miami Beach wondered what to do. His real estate firm had sold the house to an intermediary, knowing well it would be turned over to Capone...
...bleary old Műnchausen . . . an unmitigated liar" who has "grossly slandered Livingston, Stanley, Cecil Rhodes." The slander: that Livingston married a black, that Stanley was a murderer, that Rhodes, drunk on prickly-pear brandy, had to be rescued from the crocodile. Employed for many years by the English firm (Hatton & Cookson) which sent "Horn" to Africa, Puleston declares that the recorded exploring expeditions, river charting, native battles, elephant hunts, "gorilla purveys," and rescue of a captive English girl, were impossible for any young employe, virtually a desk-bound office boy, of Hatton & Cookson. Unfortunately "Horn" lays claim to these...
...potent London automobile insurance firm of Hobson, Allfrey & Wheeler announced, last week, that it will no longer write policies covering motor cars hired out by the day to bookmakers, actors, actresses, Jews...
...evolution of the Spanish government the stages will be counted by lustrums. . . . Now that we are about to enter the second lustrum of our regime we will submit to the nation certain fundamental laws which will be a firm foundation sustaining the future of Spain. . . . [However] we have no intention of modifying our fundamental system, which has served so well during our first lustrum...
Bankers, reading Count Corti's colorful record, will think of other mighty houses: Torlonias (Italy); Aguados (Spain); Fuggers (Germany); Morgans (U. S.). Scholars may recall the tablets found on the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates telling of the Egibi firm, financiers B.C. Cosmopolitans will write notes of congratulation to living Rothschilds: Zoologist Lionel Walter, Bankers Anthony Gustay and Lionel Nathan, Soldier James A. (London); Physician-Yachtsman Henri (Paris...