Word: late
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highly aristocratic Potocki family, the ambassador has constantly worked for his country's freedom and later for its government. Originally aide de camp for the late Marshal Pilsudski, he served as minister in Ankara before coming to Washington. Even now, with the Moscicki faction out of power, he has held the confidence of the new government at Paris headed by General Sikorski...
Composer Rudolph Friml told a Manhattan newshawk of a "conversation" he had had with the late Victor Herbert via the Ouija board: "He says to me, 'Play five notes.'. . . I play. . . . It is Victor Herbert. It is his style exactly. Then Victor Herbert he says to me, 'Quite charming...
...State could collect no more than 60% of the nine roads' taxes for 1934-35-36, the court ordered a sweeping revision of New Jersey's assessment methods. Until all of the roads' properties were revalued, said the court, the 60% payment rule would hold. Too late to save bankrupt Jersey Central, the order was not too late to apply to the nine roads' 1939 tax bill ($18,261,000), due next month. It may save New Jersey from killing more of the roads which pay its golden taxes...
...like a buffalo, owned the world's largest square-rigged yacht (the 675-ton Aloha), was Board Chairman of the big Western Pacific, controlled 40,000 miles of railroad trackage-a full seventh of the U. S. total-most of it in the Northwest, stamping ground of the late great Railroad Builder James Jerome Hill, whom he had known and idolized. By 1931 he had welded Western Pacific and others of his holdings together until he controlled two through routes running from Chicago to the Pacific Coast, had built a line connecting their Pacific terminals, Seattle and San Francisco...
Best-beloved of guests were Osa and the late Martin Johnson. Osa was utterly fearless not only of animals but of the fragilities of Government House protocol, stood in the middle of the G. H. drawing room in a "zebra-striped silk dress . . . and brayed like a zebra, and everybody liked...