Word: g
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nearby stood a man with iron-grey hair and a flower in his buttonhole, Solicitor John G. Carpenter, whose legal duty was to send as many of the defendants as possible to the electric chair. Outside the railing sat some 200 spectators, mostly mill workers in their shirt sleeves, women with babes-in-arms, students from the University of North Carolina. The thermometer stood at 90°. Informal was court procedure. Said Judge Barnhill: "We're not much on ceremony in North Carolina but we do manage to get dignity...
Republican speakers, including Major General James G. Harbord, President of Radio Corp. and Emory Roy Buckner, one-time U. S. District Attorney, flayed Mayor Walker. Excerpts...
...Swift & Co. has emphatically remained a Swift company, though the present Swifts are a second generation. In addition to President Louis F. Swift, there are Vice Presidents E. F. Swift, G. F. Swift, C. H. Swift, H. H. Swift (No. 1 Trustee of the great University of Chicago) and A. B. Swift...
...Russian River, near Monte Rio, is located Bohemian Grove, where Bohemians gather each summer. On the August Saturday night nearest the full moon they give a play. The 1929 play, A Guest of Robin Hood, performed last week with Mr. Shoup in the audience, was written by Charles G. Norris with music by Robert C. Newell...
...famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house of Morgan will have about 2% of the 12,250,000 P. & G. shares outstanding since the five-for-one split-up last month...