Word: hurte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year 1911 I was badly hurt in a railroad collision-near Armour's Station on the Southern railroad. The company promptly paid me $2,000-to get my old self doctored-and it was this money that I invested with the Bank of Donaldsonville. being promised a 10% dividend by Hon. J. S. Shingler, multi-millionaire of Ashburn, Ga., and its president." Mrs. Felton then told how -she had not received one cent of dividends and how she had appealed to the State banking commission, to the State Supreme Court, to the Governor. They did nothing to help...
...with dubiety. He advertised: "The name Durant shall stand for something better than a football in Wall Street." The New York Times writer knew that, even though Mr. Durant's name may be a football of Wall Street, Mr. Durant himself is one of its most skilled footballers; hurt in a railroad accident and bedridden, yet he bravely persisted in his stock market activities (TIME, Feb. 1, 1926) ; practically impoverished after he was ousted from General Motors in 1920, he has since made himself many times a millionaire by stock market skill; market quotations are ham-and-eggs...
...London, Justice Roche set a new precedent for English insurance law by ruling that an insurance company could not refuse indemnity to one Frank James who, while drunk and driving his motor car, killed one pedestrian and hurt another. Said the judge: "Drunkenness is a folly, not a deliberate offense...
Died. Rafael Sabatini Jr., 19, only son of potent author Rafael Sabatini, creator of Scaramouche, Captain Blood, The Sea Hawk; by accident while taking his mother to drive. The car overturned. Mrs. Sabatini was badly hurt...
...employes at the hospital knew that the richest man in the U. S. was as near death as he had ever been. Yet, so well did all these people keep their secret that it was not until three days after the crash that headlines throughout the land screamed: "FORD HURT IN MURDER PLOT...