Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact is, and I make this statement after recent investigation and I make it with full confidence of its accuracy, that Mr. Mellon owns less than 16 1/2% of the stock of the Aluminum Co. of America. He owns less than 16 1/2% of the voting stock and less than 16 1/2% of the preferred stock, which is nonvoting, so I am not quibbling about the distinction between voting and non-voting stock. His brother, Mr. Richard Mellon, owns a similar amount, and the two of them together own less than 33% of the stock in the company...
...Consul's office is a man of suavity and tact. He showed his plump questioner a portrait of President Lincoln, a tall, full length portrait. He hoped it would sink...
...Erda. It was late in the opera and an audience, unused to operas with no intermission, was shuffling restlessly. Then blue light played on one corner of the darkened stage, a trap door opened, Ernestine Schumann-Heink was back. She sang the short passage allotted to her with fine full tones, nobly, magnificently. There were many murmurs when she had finished: "A great voice, a great interpreter, a great old lady...
...James Ritty, a Dayton, Ohio, saloonkeeper. He was bothered by his bartenders' sticky fingers lifting undue moneys from the till. On a trip to the old country he nosed around the ship's boiler room, noted the indicator that counted the propeller revolutions, bethought him of a machine full of cog wheels which his barkeeps would operate every time they slid a seidel of Extra Pale across the mahogany. His machine, when a proper key was depressed, clanged a bell and punched a hole in a roll of paper. On good business days the roll might run to a scroll...
...statement in full follows...