Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chamber of Commerce of Jersey City, N. J., last week named a committee to investigate charges reiterated by one James Burkitt, shockheaded, stump-speaking realtor, that Jersey City's high tax rate is the result of a corrupt stranglehold upon Jersey City politics held by Mayor Frank Hague, Democratic boss (TIME...
...Frank Nelson Doubleday, potent publisher of magazines and books, pounced on Professor Siegfried's words and found that they were meat for his new pet, Personality.* He wrote to leading U. S. newspaper publishers and asked them what they thought of Professor Siegfried's remarks. The results were printed in the July Personality...
...heard of Sarazen when he won; no one had heard of Hagen when he came to fame in 1914. Practically unknown were the two golfers who on the first day at Olympia Fields led all the rest. Henry Guici was one, a tiny player, dark-haired, quick-tempered. Frank Ball tied Guici with a 70. No one knew anything about him except that he was a cousin of John Ball, famed Britisher. Either Guici or Ball might win, of course, but the bookmakers didn't think so. And the bookmakers were right, for on the second day Guici...
Elected. Richard Frank Grant, president of the Susquehanna Collieries Company, onetime (1924-25) president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce; to be head of the new Lehigh Valley Coal Co. sales corporation...
...Frank Lusk Babbott, retired Manhattan manufacturer, (jute) philanthropist...