Word: j
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansas City. Before he was 21 Michael had begun drawing city pay. In 34 years, by the estimates, he drew $60,000 for his municipal services. But that was not what made him famous. His brother's political power descended in large part to another brother Thomas J., and Michael became right hand...
...annum) was relatively picayune, less than ¼% of the balancing figure of the British budget. These facts were used last week in a slashing attack on the Laborite Chancellor by Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp. One of London's most potent tycoons. Sir Josiah served with Owen D. Young and J. P. Morgan in drafting the Young Plan which Mr. Snowden would not endorse at The Hague until it had been changed, to give Britain more "sponge cake." Last week Sir Josiah testily observed: "Mr. Snowden set out to get something off the Latins. He has got practically nothing...
...different annual convention at Belfast, Ireland. Hard-bitten Ben Tillett made another speech. The years have brought power and respectability to British Labor. There were no Russian Communists at last week's meeting. One of the Trades Union's two gold watches went to a Mr. W. J. Rooney of the highly respectable American Federation of Labor. And Ben Tillett's speech was as conservative as a bowler hat. With an ideology that would have done credit to a Director of the Bank of England, erstwhile firebrand Tillett pleaded for protective tariffs, increased inter-Empire trade. Said...
...Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
Germans in the know whispered to friends that there isn't any "Dorothy Lane," or any J. L. S. Weekly, that the play had been entirely concocted by Elizabeth Hauptmann, pungent Socialist playwright (no relation to Playwright Gerhart [Sunken Bell] Hauptmann ), and that the last act would be etwas famos! ("swell...