Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...found himself mixed up with this sorry affair in two ways: 1) His cut-rate Mayflower residence led to a suspicion that Mr. Moore was trying to use him for political protection; 2) the 1928 Curtis-for-President campaign was conducted from headquarters in the Mayflower where one Al Gross, who served a term in Sing Sing for robbery, was active enough to get his picture taken with Candidate Curtis. Always touchy on the subject of his Mayflower residence, the Vice President of late has been flying into a blazing rage at any query about his connection with Mr. Moore...
...royalties covering some 250,000 acres of oil land. He has offices in Manhattan, Boston, Tulsa, Independence, Kan., and Dresden, Germany. Last week he merged seven of his royalty companies into Consolidated American Royalty Corp. with holdings worth $8,000,000 which last year produced $1,402,000 gross revenue. Mr. Jones will be the company's president. Its chairman will be Frank Haskell, former president of Tidal Oil Co., a Tide Water Oil property. Stock in the company will be publicly sold, listed on "one or more representative stock exchanges...
Arthur Sinclair should get a great deal of fun out of the part of spry Old Man Murphy, shouting insults at other actors in a rich brogue, taking his coat half off to fight imaginary enemies, leaping on chairs to deliver political orations. His gross cartoon of an aged playboy of the western world comes off admirably, although the walls of Dublin's hallowed Abbey Theatre, where Mr. Sinclair used to perform mystic Synge dramas and nationalistic plays with the Irish Players, probably trembled when he accepted this role in rough-&-tumble farce...
...Sunday School collection box at Sullivan, Ind.); Author Arthur Pound; Harold Cunningham, onetime master of S.S. Leviathan, and his successor, Albert Randall; Managing Editor Kenneth C. Hogate of the Wall Street Journal, Colyumist Robert Hobart ("Bob") Davis, Artist Tony Sarg, Funnyman Tip Bliss. Actor James Gleason, Funnyman Milt Gross, Banker Phelps Newberry of Detroit (Guardian Detroit Bank); Broker Edward H. Kittredge (now Augmented Bombarde of the Guild...
...Pacific, sometimes around the world. Greatest of the "White Empresses of the Pacific" is Empress of Japan. Greatest on the St. Lawrence-Europe route will soon be Empress of Britain, launched last summer. The ocean-going going and coastal fleet of C. P. R. numbers 57 vessels with a gross tonnage of 468,717. Its inland lake and river fleet has 20 ships...