Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State of Illinois v. Len Small, et al., began in 1921, was based on acts committed by the Governor in 1917, at which time he was state treasurer. As treasurer he deposited some millions of dollars of Illinois money in a bank controlled by one of his friends, the late State Senator E. C. Curtis. The bank paid Illinois 2% interest and lent the money to Chicago packing houses at 8% interest rate. Enemies of Mr. Small maintained that he, as well as the bank, profited on this transaction. In fact, Representative Miller in the oration previously quoted said that...
...alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray was looking out for troops to defend the Legation from possible captors of Peking. Late in the week he seemed to be getting the troops he sought. Marine Commander-in-China General Smedley Darlington Butler rushed north from Shanghai, landed two troop ships carrying 1,900 U. S. marines at Tientsin, and personally hurried up to confer with Mr. MacMurray at Peking. Meanwhile the British...
Died. Mrs. Cathleen Neilson Vanderbilt Colford, 40, onetime (1903-20) wife of the late Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt; suddenly, from heart disease; in Paris...
Conductor Kennedy was born in Albion, N. Y., but he never met another native of that countryside, born 27 years before, with whose works he was to become so closely associated?the late George M. Pullman. The smile on his long, gentle face will grow shy if you ask him to tell about all the bishops, actresses, pugilists, governors, bankers and U. S. Presidents (all since Grover Cleveland's first term) that he has conducted and known. Off duty he lives in a small house under old elms at Rochester, N. Y. One son is a plumber; another a Baltimore...
...last week it was announced that two Morgan partners (Francis D. Bartow, George Whitney) would become Manville directors, that Hiram E. Manville would be replaced as president by the man whom J. P. Morgan & Co. found to rebuild Montgomery Ward & Co., Chicago mail order house. Mr. Manville succeeds his late brother as board chairman...