Word: franklin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...knew what he had said--and Amy wanted to make sure someone else heard from Ron's own lips the enormity of his crime. He was the only proof she had. Then, the horror story echoing in her head, the words hanging in the air of the house in Franklin, Ind., they had scrimped and saved to buy, she stayed up to make sure he did not do anything to himself. They had loved each other very much--or so she had thought. He had bagged groceries at the supermarket where she worked and brought her roses nearly every week...
...urban communities, all that awaits them is the street--no soccer, baseball or ice skating. They just hang out, while their parents pray that dead-end afternoons won't lead to sex or drugs or violence. "Most teenage pregnancies happen between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," says Les Franklin, founder of the Shaka Franklin Foundation for Youth, a nonprofit group based in Denver that provides counseling and other services for urban youngsters. "In our neighborhoods, the concept of 'soccer mom' doesn't exist...
Assuming a new identity, Eric Stevens, and taking up with Sonia Schulte, the wife of his former boss at LaSalle Street, Frankel heard about a troubled Tennessee insurance company, Franklin American Life. In 1991, with money remaining from his derelict investment funds and a few dubious letters of credit, he founded Thunor Trust as a vehicle to take over Franklin. Thunor was run by two Nashville businessmen, who also claim to be victims. Frankel then used Franklin American's assets to purchase at least 10 other insurance companies throughout the South and Midwest. Laxly regulated insurance companies such as Franklin...
DIED. KENNETH S. DAVIS, 86, historian and tireless biographer of Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Manhattan, Kans. The author of books on Adlai Stevenson and Dwight Eisenhower as well, he had just completed the fifth volume of his prizewinning life of F.D.R...
...magic of America. He went to the elitist Boston Latin School; on to Harvard; and then in the Roaring Twenties, with little regard for ethics or even the law, plunged into the worlds of banking and moviemaking. He cashed in before the market crash of 1929. When Franklin Roosevelt called Joe to Washington to clean up the Securities and Exchange Commission, somebody asked F.D.R. why he had tapped such a crook. "Takes one to catch one," replied Roosevelt. Kennedy did a superb...