Word: halfe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commonly understood. Instead, the Bureau will try earnestly and scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
...Telluride's credit. So, since the Bank of Telluride was Chase's correspondent, and the man with the drafts was readily identified as Telluride's President Waggoner, his drafts to the extent of $495,000 were quickly honored. Thus the man from Colorado had in his possession nearly a half-million dollars in the form of paper bearing the Chase certification...
...while detectives were still searching for the missing banker, the half-million fraud produced another surprise. For what had Banker Waggoner done with his $495,000 drafts? Cashed them and gone to South America? Not at all. He had used the money to pay to other banks money which his Bank of Telluride owed them. He had robbed Peter (the six Manhattan banks) to pay Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been...
Unlike that more ebullient, cosmopolitan journalist, William Allen White of the Emporia Gazette, Publisher-Senator Capper confines his interest to Kansas. Last week he editorialized: "I pledge for myself and The Capital at least another half-century's wholehearted devotion to the task of making Topeka a greater and better city; Kansas a more prosperous and happier State...