Word: l
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the news reached the press, George S. Wilson, District Director of Public Welfare, ordered the rides to cease. Edward L. McNamara, another trusty, now rides with the prison doctor. Morris Massa Barnard, superintendent...
...Comedy of Gang Life in Chicago by Elizabeth Hauptmann with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Bert Brecht, German translator of John Gay's immortal Beggars' Opera. An italicized footnote explained: "the comedy is based on a story by Dorothy Lane which appeared in The J. L. S. Weekly, published at St. Louis...
Germans in the know whispered to friends that there isn't any "Dorothy Lane," or any J. L. S. Weekly, that the play had been entirely concocted by Elizabeth Hauptmann, pungent Socialist playwright (no relation to Playwright Gerhart [Sunken Bell] Hauptmann ), and that the last act would be etwas famos! ("swell...
...racing sloop Isolde, leased by Commodore Vincent Astor of the New York Yacht Club from Commodore Henry L. Maxwell of the Larchmont Yacht Club, was in a collision off Sands Point, L. I., sank in three minutes. Only the crew was aboard...
...James B. Forgan Jr., of the famed Scotch banking family, vice president of Chicago's First National; Alfred Ernest Hamill, of Hathaway & Co. (commercial paper), also of Scotch-Irish banking ancestry; William H. Mitchell of Mitchell, Hutchins & Co. (brokers) ; Dudley Gates, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc. (insurance) ; Henry L. Hanley, executive vice president of North American Light & Power; Arthur Andersen, of Arthur Andersen & Co. (certified public accountants) and William Blair Baggaley...