Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York City, Frank ("Daredevil Jack") Latkowsk' did a Jackknife dive from Brooklyn Bridge into the East River (138 ft.). He sprained his thumb...
Wilbur, next Monday -- "Boom Boom". A typical summer musical comedy, with Frank Mcintyre...
...well known are the Taplins, partly because Frank E. Taplin does not like newsmen and emphatically dislikes such newsmen as roam about accompanied by cameras. Unlike the Van Sweringens, the Taplins are not usually regarded as equals, Frank E. Taplin being quite unmistakably Chief Taplin, with Charles Taplin able lawyer, acting largely as attorney for the Taplin interests...
...Railman Frank Taplin, 55, began his industrial career 42 years ago, started in as office boy for no less famed an employer than John D. Rockefeller Sr. (The present "Taplin interests" include a vague but potent backing from the Rockefeller family, whereas the Van Sweringens are more directly indebted to the House of Morgan.) Mr. Taplin's father was manager of the refined oil department and was later vice president of the old Standard Oil Co. But it was coal, not oil, that founded the Taplin future. In 1900 Mr. Taplin became salesman for Pittsburgh Coal...
...Duchess de Talleyrand, who was Anna, the daughter of the late wealthy Jay Gould, shot himself on purpose in his mother's Paris home. The press did not get wind of the story until last week. When the press came, the Duchess was ready with a frank, detailed and-most important of all-entirely literate statement; one that prevented garbling by scandal-monging journals. The statement said: "The Duke and Duchess de Talleyrand regret keenly to announce the critical illness of their son, Howard. . . . He shot himself because we refused him permission to marry until...