Word: joel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London, the Diamond Syndicate, source of over 90% of all gem diamonds, announced that it would for the time being suspend all offers of raw diamonds to the trade.* Observers sensed, in last week's announcement, the wily hand of Solly Joel, London tycoon and onetime South African miner, potent in Syndicate circles...
...from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Lieut.-Commander Joel T. Boone, the President's physician, had sent James William Good to have his appendix...
Masquerading as ink, paint, olive oil and other prosaic commodities, shipments of high-grade liquor used to proceed to one Alfred E. Norris, Manhattan broker, from one Joel D. Kerper, Philadelphia 'legger. When the U. S. penetrated the shipments' disguises, Broker Norris and 'Legger Kerper were tried in Philadelphia. District, Judge William Huntington Kirkpatrick sentenced the 'Legger to 15 months at Atlanta and a $20,000 fine. Broker Norris was fined $200 on the ground that, though the act of purchasing liquor is not prohibited, yet the act of purchasing aids and abets the prohibited transportation...
Nine years ago a man named Julian La Rose Harris went to Columbus, Ga. With him went his wife, Julia Collier Harris, and together they bought controlling shares of a newspaper, the Enquirer-Sun. All Columbians knew about the Harrises was that he was a son of Author Joel Chandler (Uncle Remus) Harris, that he was a newspaperman who was once managing editor of the Atlanta Constitution, more recently editor of the Paris Herald; that she was his wife. Columbians did not care to know much more, because the Enquirer-Sun was not much of a newspaper to bother about...
...following men made Dean's List grades at the Make-up Examinations: Haig Ajamian '29, George Alpert '29, O. A. Beamer ocC., Joel Brenner '31, R. K. Chisholm '30, E. B. Cohen '31, C. W. Duhig '29, K. W. Howard '29, F. B. Hyde '30, R. I. Knapp '29, W. F. Koetzle '30, R. K. Lamb ocC., E. G. Latham '30, Frank Litvack '29, Samuel Lowis '29, R. T. Moulton '30, J. J. O'Leary Jr. '30, G. J. Pick '32, W. S. Smith '30, R. G. Tinnerholm '30, F. M. Watkins '30, E. C. Weist '30, Abraham Wolper...