Word: francises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a racket of incredible proportions came to light in Chicago, where slickers used to bilk hayseeds by promising to let them see the Masonic Temple revolve on its invisible axis. Scene was the U. S. District Court, Judge Philip L. Sullivan presiding. Cast consisted principally of 41 defendants...
Sir Francis Drake estate. . . . His property has continued in unbroken succession in the possession of his legitimate heirs."* From London, Counselor of Embassy Ray Atherton reported that letters from Drake dupes were one of his office's greatest cares. "We have," he said, "prepared mimeographed letters to answer them...
For a time the racket was taking $6,000 per month out of Iowa alone. There were said to have been 2,000 victims in Quincy, Ill. Missouri, according to one faction of this huge gullery, was the home of Sir Francis' "rightful heir." Delay in the inheritance'...
Charles Francis Adams, Hoover Secretary of the Navy.
Although Franz Mehring writes in detail of Marx's opinions on the U. S. Civil War, readers who know The Education of Henry Adams may be disappointed with his account. In that book Henry Adams describes how his father, Charles Francis Adams, then Minister to England, successfully prevented English...