Word: justness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seasoned turfmen smiled tolerantly. They knew Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was rich (rumor put his fortune at $20,000,000), was passionately fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream...
Publisher Robert Lee Vann had just left the University of Pittsburgh with a law degree when he founded the Courier in 1910. Today he is a power in Pennsylvania politics, keeps a handsome home in Oakmont, Pittsburgh suburb. Gross income of the Courier in 1938 was over $500,000. Something...
Pointing a long finger, Senate President Robert C. Hendrickson shoved it directly under the falcon nose of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague, charged that he alone was responsible for Jersey Central's bankruptcy. Reason: Boss Hague blocked the railroad tax compromise. Hague excuse: The bill was an...
In 1907 Arthur Curtiss James was 40 and he had just received $25,000,000 by his father's will. Instead of diversifying his investment as he was advised, he began to concentrate in railroad securities. By 1926 he had a beard like a buffalo, owned the world'...
The main defect of The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is that it is not tragic. Until the very end, Elizabeth's insistence that Essex can save his head merely by sending back her ring makes the drama seem as unreal as a schoolgirl's tiff, the...