Word: grains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some losers. Most prominent of suiciders was James J. Riordan, president of New York's County Trust Co. (TIME, Nov. 18). In Manhattan, George E. Cutler, wholesale produce merchant, jumped to death. In Philadelphia, Frank S. Palfrey and W. Paul Brown, brokers, shot themselves. In Chicago, Herman L. Felgenhauer, grain broker, took gas. A Rochester suicide was Robert M. Searle, president of Rochester Gas & Electric Co., who was supposed to have lost $1,200,000 in October. Once before he had lost $1,000,000, had gone to a sanitarium. In Scranton (Pa.), Carl S. Motiska, civil engineer, saturated...
Pounding for silence, and securing instantly a dead hush, the President said: "I hope there will soon be a favorable . answer to these questions." Then, amid I discontented grumbling, he proceeded with a stodgy though important speech, announcing that Soviet grain collectors in the provinces have succeeded in forcing the peasants to sell at the Government's price some eleven million tons of grain. This is 10% more than last year, will amply suffice to feed the Red Army and the proletarian population of Russia's cities throughout the winter. "Let us rejoice and sing!" cried the Peasant-President, motioning...
...Arthur W. Cutten, wife of the famed bull-market operator, and Mrs. Al fred T. Martin, wife of the vice president of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. (grain & stocks), returning in Mrs. Cutten's car from a Chicago theatre, were stopped by five men who growled, "Police officers!" The Cutten chauffeur was marched away up the street. The ladies were then told: "This is a holdup. No screams or we'll shoot your hands off." The loot: $500 worth of jewelry (mostly imitation...
...your editorial of Wednesday, November sixth, entitled the "Grain and the Chaff", commenting on the recommendation of books by a committee acting for the Cooperative Society, you lament that the committee deals only with non-fiction and you suggest that other forms of literature might very profitably be included in their survey...
There were no executions last week for murder pure and simple. Killing is no capital crime in the Soviet Union unless committed in some way against the State, for example by shooting a grain collector...