Word: j
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...J. QUINN Chief of Police San Francisco, Calif...
...have sent my son, H. J. Heeb, much correspondence. I wish to say before he sailed for Spain in 1937. . . . He was working in Cincy, first job he had since graduating in 1931. He visited me on a Mother's Day in May, he sailed the following Wednesday from New York. But what I am trying to say is, of course he got odd jobs like in spring of the year, he would get what he could do here in Springfield cleaning wallpaper, washing down kitchens and porches. Whenever he could obtain work of that sort no matter...
...J. Richard ("Dixie") Davis, the racket's lawyer, and Harry Schoenhaus, the racket's treasurer, both of whom turned State's evidence, got respectively one year (of which 170 days had al ready been served), and a suspended sentence...
...captain got in touch with a woman naturalist attached to a Cape Province museum, and she in turn summoned Dr. J. L. B. Smith from Rhodes University College in Grahamstown. By the time he arrived, a taxidermist had skinned and mounted the creature, throwing away the carcass (which was rotting) but keeping the skull. Dr. Smith pronounced it "sensational." Photographs were sent to London, where Geologist Errol Ivor White of the British Museum called the find "one of the most amazing events in the realm of Natural History in the 20th Century...
Bustling Publisher Funk, whose idea is unquestionably the most successful since the picture magazines', spent 30 years as the forgotten man of Funk & Wagnalls before he struck out for himself. While the Literary Digest sickened under Co-Publisher Robert J. Cuddihy (who had acquired 56% of the stock), Wilfred Funk had to amuse himself with such unprofitable pastimes as compiling a dog dictionary, getting a reputation as a prankster (he tore small towels to shreds) and writing a batch of light verse. Sample...