Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright boy at Princeton, the University of Virginia Law School or Washington & Lee was lanky Frank Joseph Hague Jr. After eight years of dawdling, he never did get a degree. In 1936 he managed to get admitted to the New Jersey bar. Last fortnight, events in the politically throttled State of New Jersey conspired to place Frank Hague Jr., 34, on that state's highest bench (Errors & Appeals) as a lay member at $9,000 a year. The events: 1) loaded with mortgages on properties from which high local taxes had driven business, a big Jersey City bank failed...
...tenets of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty." Nevertheless, followers of Rev. Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman have always turned up their noses at the name "Buchmanite," much prefer to be called the Oxford Group-a designation which suggests that Buchmanism is somehow connected with Oxford University, or at least related to the Oxford Movement of a century ago. Until lately, however, none of the Group's critics was able to do anything about this flourishing misrepresentation. Then Dr. Buchman himself stuck his neck out of his well-tailored shell. In London he applied to the Board of Trade for incorporation...
Marshals Richard H. Sullivan 231 Robert L. Green 202 Francis A. Hardling 200 Treasurer Frank P. Davidson 103 Chorister Russell Greenhood 187 Orator Richard Lewis 105 Odist Ellsworth Grant 179 Poet Robert Anderson...
Died. Colonel Frank Emerson De Long, 75, inventor of a hook-&-eye fastener ("See That Hump?"); of a heart attack; in Palm Beach...
...dished out $2,179,280. N. J. Title Guarantee & Trust still had over a million in cash on hand, but it did not open for business again. With $21,500,000 in deposits still on its books, it was the biggest bank failure in five years. Reason: under Boss Frank Hague, Jersey City's tax rate on real estate is the highest in the U. S. and the bank's assets were frozen with $21,000,000 in real estate commitments, much of it in empty tenements and factories...