Word: guarantors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When one honorable Chinese statesman guarantees the safety of another, then if the latter is straightway executed, it is comme il faut for the embarrassed guarantor to commit suicide, and soon. Embarrassed in the Chinese capital of Nanking, last week, was elder statesman Wu Tze-hui. People kept telling him that a man whose life he had guaranteed, Gen- eral Li Chai-sum, the governor of Canton, had been executed-and there were newspapers to prove it. "Fate leaves me no alternative!" cried grizzled Guarantor Wu. "For my worthless neck the cord!" Presently there were Chinese "Extras!" on the street...
...band played "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." He, pleased, mounted the stage, took the conductor's baton, led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in the last number of the program. He was William Andrews Clark Jr., guarantor of the orchestra. He had just pledged financial backing (lacking which the orchestra was about to disband) for another five years...
...introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...crown prince" of automobile thieves. He discarded automobiles in favor of airplanes. He became a hero. In 1923 a colony of fishermen were trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Aviator Parker flew to their aid, carrying food and clothing. In 1924 he was a guarantor of the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at . Michigan City, Ind. People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week he and eight of his employes were indicted as the operators of 45 breweries and an airplane bootlegging system. Federal agents said that Aviator Parker's transportation methods...
...reporter bit his fingernails. He was wondering whether he would best serve his paper by following the others into Manager Gatti's office or by pursuing the little man in the automobile?a little man who, chief stockholder, President, guarantor and presiding intelligence, knows perhaps more than anyone else about the Metropolitan Opera Company and its new season...