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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Know all men by these presents that I, George L. Rickard, being of sound and disposing mind ... do hereby make...
...industry hale, there will be plenty of people who want to go to U. S. prizefights, however wretched they may be. It is not probable therefore that Max Schmeling, if he becomes heavyweight champion, will be expected to defend his title in the back rooms of speakeasies, like John L. Sullivan, or on a barge, like James J. ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett. The other champions,* of whom Tex Rickard made a list before he died, are as well off as ever. But perhaps million-dollar gates are now definitely in the past; perhaps to produce them it was necessary to have...
...retirement of Mr. Hertz, last week, was complete. He resigned as president and chairman of the board of Chicago Yellow Cab Co.* He sold all his holdings to Charles A. McCullough, of Parmelee Transfer Co.. who becomes chairman of Chicago Yellow Cab Co. Knowlton L. ("Snake") Ames Jr., 33, son of the famed Princeton footballer, himself a fair footballer, recently general manager of the Chicago Journal of Commerce, becomes Yellow Cab's president...
...L'Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
Divorced. Sir Paul Dukes, able London journalist & author, onetime official hawkshaw in Russia; by Lady Margaret Rutherfurd Dukes, famed New Thinker, onetime spouse of Under Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills, daughter of Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt. Nuptial prophets link Lady Dukes with Prince Charles Murat of France, son of Bonapartist Prince Joachim Murat, descendant of Gen. Joachim Murat, onetime King of Naples...