Word: holmesing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt thus roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant. Through the latter half of the 19th Century most of the nation's schoolchildren learned about Meddlesome Mattie, many another moral, immoral or...
The collector whose wealth of Old Masters' drawings thus sifted down last week through dealers to lesser collectors was born in 1859 in Washington, D. C. Migrating to England as a youth, Henry Oppenheimer went into "the City.'' became a member of the Speyer Brothers' banking...
When the War broke Speyer Brothers went out of business and "Hen Opp" retired, made no more money, bought little more art. With Zeppelins over London in 1917, Sir Charles Holmes's thoughts turned to "Hen Opp,'" who had helped finance the Underground, was called "Father of the...
Last week in Kansas City a ghost from the past of Universal Oil Products arose to plague a man who had also hoped to share the wealth created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their...
Special Master Hall not only lost the $12,000 which he hoped to get as a bonus: the court instructed him to return to the oil companies $44,700 of the original $99,900 with interest at 6% from 1926, an additional sum amounting to nearly $26,000. The refund...