Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bill Brewer, John Stewer, Peter Gurney, Peter Davy, Dan Whiddon Harry Hawk, old Uncle Tom Cobley
...officer afloat, is Admiral Frank Herman Schofield, whose appointment, announced last week, will become effective in September. Born 62 years ago at Jerusalem, N. Y., his home now is at Penn Van, N. Y. In 1898, eight years after his graduation from Annapolis, he was executive officer of the Hawk in the Spanish-American War. During the War he was on Admiral Sims's staff in London. Four years ago he was a member of the U. S. delegation to the abortive Three-Power Naval Conference at Geneva. Small, bespectacled, suggesting the patient Taxpayer and Mr. We-the-People...
Either TIME'S editorial staff is too modest, or else its hawk-eyed reporters did not see the Will Rogers telegram reproduced on page nine of Variety, twenty-fifth anniversary number...
...cities to give him money. His terms: profits of from 20% to 50%; to anyone bringing in new capital, 10% commission. How he earns the profit remains a mystery. He keeps an office in a small garage, will have no traffic with banks, operates under the name of Black Hawk Finance Co. Some rumorers say that he has made money in the sugar market; others say that he finances Chicago bootleggers and narcotic dealers...
Belvidere bankers, the local chambers of commerce and the Chicago Association of Commerce all have doubted this explanation. But up to last week they had failed to find the actual means by which Black Hawk Finance finances itself. "Let them investigate," shouted florid Financier Benham to visitors. "I have nothing to conceal...