Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...amiable colored saloonkeeper named Tom ("Millions") Turpin, he too opened barrooms in St. Louis' black belt with Brother Tom Jr. Three years he spent in California selling a mouse poison of his own invention. Back in St. Louis he was elected constable, and next turned his hand to running a cinemansion, the Booker T. Washington, the present site of St. Louis' massive Municipal Auditorium. Showman Turpin prospered, built the gaudy Jazzland dance hall where brother Tom thumped the piano. When Charles Turpin died of an insect bite in 1935, he left a $119,000 estate consisting chiefly...
...reason for Oakhurst's suicide. Equally silly are scenes in which the outcasts ride out in warm weather, and a few shots later, without proper time identification, are snowed in, with the Duchess (Margaret Irving) dying from an undetermined cause. Best shot: "Luck" winning a poker hand from Oakhurst...
...TIME, April 12). One of the Lincoln family's few precious objects which had not already been given to the Government was the Healy portrait of Lincoln, which showed him, nearly lifesize, seated with legs crossed, one finger along his cheek, the other hand clutching the chair arm. Robert Todd Lincoln, who became Secretary of War, Minister to the Court of St. James and president of Pullman Co., thought this the best likeness of his father ever painted. In her will, Mrs. Lincoln provided that the picture should remain in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Lincoln Isham, during...
...merchant fleet of Holland and nearly equaled the French merchant marine. The backbone of this trade is ore. Last week, because Steel's big winter had depleted supplies of ore at Lake Erie docks to 2,851,951 tons, little more than half the amount on hand last year and the lowest in ten years, shipping companies rejoiced at getting their big boats through to Duluth and Superior two weeks ahead of the 1936 opening. And for the first time in eight years, crews had been signed for every available freighter on the Great Lakes...
...Raised at a raucous Bethlehem Steel stockholders' meeting in Wilmington, Del. was the perennial question of whether 75-year-old Chairman Charles Michael Schwab is still worth his $200,000 salary. The old steelmaster was on hand to give the meeting his blessing with an optimistic appreciation of the "complete cooperation and understanding between management and stockholders." Hardly had he finished before that ubiquitous meeting-goer, Lewis D. Gilbert ("U. S. Minority Stockholder No. 1"), rose to propose that Mr. Schwab be kicked upstairs into an "honorary chairmanship" with a $25,000 annual pension. Mr. Schwab, said Stockholder Gilbert...