Word: jim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Take that magazine away from the juror," Bailiff George Le Fleur shouted across the court room to Deputy Sheriff Jim Hogan. Deputy Sheriff Hogan said no reading matter was allowed in the jury box. "Look here, you're going to get in trouble with me," the juror said. "I'm going to tell the judge on you." "I hope you do," he said, as he walked away...
...Corrigan employes was Price McKinney, energetic bookkeeper. He was trusted and deserved the trust. At the beginning of the century he became a partner and the firm name became Corrigan-McKinney. When "Young Jim," prancing rich man's son, tripped into scrapes, the partners rescued him and up braided him. Captain James C. Corrigan died in 1908, having named Price Mc Kinney trustee of his estate. To his son he left only $15,000 unrestricted. Millions were in trust. The young man (he was 29 then) continued playing richly about, was sued for "breach of promise" by a Pittsburgh...
...been making the partnership a stronger and stronger factor in the U. S. steel industry, reorganized it as a corporation. He could do so because he was trustee of the Corrigan estate. The new company's name was the McKinney Steel Co., with Price McKinney president. "Young Jim" Corrigan was vexed and left his London jovialities with 40% of McKinney Steel stock, bought 13% more, became president of the company...
Corrigan re-named the concern the Corrigan-McKinney Steel Co. It is the tenth largest of the U. S. steel group,* but not yet is it to be guided by a woman. "Young Jim," who had bucked and reared under a trusteeship, had fashioned a trust bridle for his widow. She may sell her steel shares; she cannot vote them. That power lies with the Union Trust Co. of Cleveland and John H. Watson Jr., elected last week president of the corporation...
Robust burlesque maidens and gentlemen in baggy trousers have been marching across U. S. stages these many years; marching, singing, telling jokes. Among them have been such major artists as Jim Barton, Clark and McCullough, Fanny Brice, the late Bert Williams, Belle Baker, Weber and Fields, David Warfield, Grace La Rue. Often the jokes have been off color; often the robust maidens have been elaborately exposed, so often that burlesque is often considered a rowdy industry. Sam A. Scribner, onetime circus man, fighting for years against unsavory shows, brought his Columbia wheel to a point of considerable respectability. In spite...