Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week this suit, first of its kind the Cistercians had ever experienced, came to trial in Superior Court in Providence. To present the monastery's case there had to be witnesses, and witnesses must talk. The Prior of the Cistercians dispensed Brother Hugh and Father Aëlred (Frank J. Walsh, late of the Royal Flying Corps) from their vows of silence. Their unaccustomed words were not notable. Father Aëlred described the nature of the monastery, Brother Hugh described Devro's accident. But most damaging to the plaintiff's case were Mrs. Devro...
...wedding of James Potter Polk, son of onetime (1918-19) Acting Secretary of State Frank Lyon Polk, and Margaret Smith Salvage in swank Lattingtown, L. I. went J. Pierpont Morgan. When he went into the church, he clapped his topper over his face to foil a battery of nine cameramen. When he left the church he threatened the cameramen with his umbrella. On each occasion he was thoroughly photographed. Muttered the 69-year-old financier, getting into his Rolls-Royce: "They won't leave me alone. And those flashlights scare me to death...
...years older than the State of Oregon and biggest single business in the State is Portland's famed Meier & Frank department store. Last week Meier & Frank's show windows were filled with homely relics loaned by the Oregon Historical Society, while its elevator girls put on the balloon skirts of the 1850s to celebrate the store's eightieth anniversary. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Meier & Frank proposed to let its employes and the public in on ownership of the business, filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for sale by the stockholders...
This was momentous because what the Balls are to Muncie, Ind., the Meier and Frank families are to Portland. The first Meier was named Aaron, a German-Jewish immigrant who followed homesteaders to the Northwest, set up a store for prospectors in the clearing called Portland where the Willamette River runs into the mighty Columbia. The first Frank, Sigmund, joined Meier in partnership and married his daughter. By 1883, when the Northern Pacific came through, they were prosperous. After that, as Portland's deep draft harbor thrived and the cool city grew around it, the Meiers and Franks became...
...financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that its revival was a problem. Pacific Coast businessmen have long known that Julius Meier sank most of his personal fortune in the bank. Last week they learned from Meier & Frank's statement to SEC that the store itself had advanced no less than $800,000 to enable the bank to reopen. Julius Meier, now 62, inactive and unwell since he left office, was displaced as president last January by his nephew, Aaron Meier Frank...