Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William Burnet Tuthill, 74, of Manhattan, architect (Carnegie Hall); in Manhattan...
...construct an overhead trolley system. Sugarman Spreckels, with an eye to a more beautiful San Francisco, objected. 'He called on Mayor Schmitz, proposed a modern underground conduit system, went so far as to offer to pay the extra expense himself. Mayor Schmitz laughed him out of the City Hall. Suspicious, Messrs. Older and Spreckels prevailed upon President Roosevelt to "lend" them famed Detective William John Burns and Lawyer Francis Joseph Heney, to conduct an investigation. They discovered that Grafter Calhoun had paid to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors $200,000 for the overhead trolley franchise...
...Hello" to two strangers, fell slug-riddled in his flower shop. Mayor Thompson took some friends down the brown Mississippi, washed water over levees, was shot at. "Just yesterday" Capone was jailed in Philadelphia. "For God's sake," says Chicago, "what does it matter who sits in the City Hall...
...beauty, and youth." The murderers in these ten cases are yet unproved by the police, but mere readers may solve the mysteries as they please. In this book Author Sutherland gives all salient facts of these cases: Elwell, Dot King, Taylor, Kennedy, Lambert, Borden, Molineux, Dorothy Arnold, Mary Phagan, Hall-Mills. To the task of giving them more permanent value Author Sutherland, 20 years a newsgatherer, brings graphic powers...
Servants of the people are not happy unless they serve. To stand and wait is not their forte. Congressmen before whose names the people have written "ex" instead of "X" become ambassadors to the Sublime Porte or Commissioners of This and That. Tammany Hall has no power to supply such opportunities for service to its late great, but its Spirit of Service operates in spite of obstacles. It was the motive force behind a business announcement of last week...