Word: jericho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindley, grilling Chicago bankers to see whether fraud had been practiced in getting him to grant a receivership to Insull's great Middle West Utilities Co. Bankers described the uneasy last days of secret meetings and suspicions before the April 1932 crash of Insull's jerry-built Jericho. Said the First National Bank's executive vice president, slow-spoken, huge-shouldered Edward Eagle Brown: "We didn't discuss all this in Mr. Insull's presence. He was the most dominating man I ever knew. You wouldn't discuss such things in his presence...
Died. Wilson Alwyn Bentley, 66, famed authority on s,owflakes; of pneumonia; in Jericho, Vt. He had a collection of 5,300 photomicrographs he had made of snow crystals, no two alike. He also photographed frost...
Banker Tinker ("Ned" to friends) has a big place on Long Island's Jericho Turnpike where he raises pheasants and other birds but seldom shoots them. He is a director of Transamerica, Barnsdall Corp., Curtiss Wright, Sinclair Consolidated Oil, Knox Hat Co., Long's Hat Stores, Kaskell & Kaskell, U. S. Hat Machinery Co.. White Motor Co. and several others...
...first Congressman to introduce a bill for a Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution. From alcohol he leaped to narcotics. Now, 60, a confirmed zealot, he has homes in Los Angeles and Manhattan, communities salty with drugs. Last week he was in Manhattan to blow a large blast against the Jericho of dope...
...Palestine. Everybody knows that Joshua and his army of invading Israelites marched round about the Canaanite city of Jericho, blew trumpets for seven days before they sacked the city. Recently British archeologists who have spent many months studying the ruins of the city which was destroyed almost 4,000 years ago, announced that they had discovered why Joshua made so much noise. A charred tree trunk plugged into a hole in the inner wall suggested that Israelite trumpeters blew blasts to hide the work of Israelite engineers who were picking holes in the fortifications. Every hole was plugged with...