Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even wiliest Oriental priests and brigands were baffled, last week, by the double and triple crossing executed by Amanullah of Afghanistan. Was he still king or wasn't he? As first unfolded by the world press, the story was of deceptive simplicity. It was a good story, too, for headlines blared...
...when the late Meyer Guggenheim started a smelter in Colorado for his seven sons. In the last three and a half years, however, Daniel Guggenheim has made his name consonant with aeronautical promotion. First he gave $500,000 to New York University for a college of aeronautics.† His good friend Alexander Klemin is its active head. Next he gave $2,500,000 for a Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aviation. His active son Harry F. Guggenheim is good president there.** Last week he let it be known that he had sent a $480,000 gift to Chile...
...these, Mr. Rockefeller Jr. confidently counts for support. S. H. B. Payne, however, came out for Col. Stewart. The Payne Whitney and Pratt estates remained doubtful, last week. The University of Chicago (object of many Rockefeller benefactions) was expected to use its 30,000 shares for the-good-of-the-family...
...specimen of a well-grown and perfectly-formed dry cleaning racket. An organization known as the Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate organization comprising some 10,000 "little fellows"?i.e., the small neighborhood...
...with another war?this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero, lawless Chicago suburb; no one was going to beat him, to bomb his place of business. The association did, however, try peaceful measures, inaugurated a price-cutting war which is still going...