Word: lately
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Willie Wilson stayed up late one night. He and his wife took turns walking up and down the floor with a sick baby. They heard automobiles stop in front of the house. Mr. Wilson got down his gun. Eight masked men came into the bedroom where the baby was wailing and Mr. Wilson was standing in the dark. They threw flashlight beams into his face and fired twice, killing...
...committee of the Diet reported favorably last week the funeral budget bill, providing for a total expenditure of 2,980,000 yen ($1,490,000) on the state funeral which will be held late in February. Among other expenses will be the permanent support of the oxen used to draw the Imperial Hearse, since these animals never thereafter perform labor of any kind...
...sons of the builder of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung acquired and merged the 132-year-old Commercial and the century-old Journal of Commerce. The new hybrid's title was Journal of Commerce and Commercial; its policy was to follow that of the late Journal of Commerce. The new owners contemplated selling their Associated Press franchise, perhaps to the tabloid Daily News. It would bring perhaps quarter of a million...
...owners were the brothers Ridder - Victor F., Bernard H., Joseph E. - sons of the late Herman Ridder who, born a New Yorker, in 1851 of German parents, bought the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung in 1889. He had already established two Catholic newspapers in Manhattan and under his direction the Staats-Zeitung became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly...
Married. Robert H. Thayer, son of Headmaster William Greenough Thayer of famed St. Mark's School, Southborough, Mass.; to Virginia Pratt, granddaughter of the late Charles Pratt, founder of famed Pratt Institute, Brooklyn; in Manhattan...