Word: generously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Wong introduced the agent to his friend Ko Wing Chuck, treasurer of the Hip Sing Tong. The agent bought a generous supply of opium and went to Chicago. Here the members of the Hip Sing Tong were so entranced by his personality and appetite for opium that, when he capped his friendly gestures by presenting them with a wad of tickets to the Braddock v. Louis prizefight, he was rewarded by being initiated into the Chicago branch of the Tong. He brought along a fellow agent, had him initiated also. By this time, the agent was also expressing...
...burning squadron off Santiago in 1898 and for commanding the naval transport Plattsburg 20 years later. Gobs who wondered whether CINCUS Bloch would be as stern a disciplinarian as CINCUS Hepburn were last week enlightened by his sister, Mrs. Stella Bloch of Bowling Green, Ky.: "He is sensitive, studious, generous to a fault but always ready to fight when teased...
Court Building, does his work. The apartment, like the Cape Cod cottage where the Justice still spends his summers, has been a meeting place at one time or another for a generous quorum of most of the ablest younger legal minds in the U. S. There Justice Brandeis will this week celebrate his 81st birthday in the assurance that the next years in his grand-scale life may still be the greatest...
...Franklin Manufacturing Co., longtime maker of air-cooled automobiles. When Franklin closed down in 1934 it left not only a plant once valued at $3,000,000 but also, as Carrier Corp. observed in a letter to stockholders fortnight ago, an "excellent quality of workmen available in Syracuse in generous quantities." The plant was taken over by the city for taxes. When Syracuse heard that Willis Carrier was thinking of moving, it told him if he would move into the old Franklin plant it would make him a good price. When Mr. Carrier said he was interested, they made...
...been working on a series of articles which he hopes to combine into a book called "The Philosophy of a Fool." In it, he wants to make philosophy easier to take by flavoring it with humor. He said, as an example, "Once somebody asked me why I was so generous with my money. I answered that I've no desire to be the richest man in the cemetery...